Harvard Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz will deliver a lecture titled The Israeli Arab Conflict in Fact and in Fiction at the Chilmark Public Library on Thursday, August 19 at 5 p.m. Admission is free.

Mr. Dershowitz, a Chilmark summer resident, is one of the best-known criminal lawyers in the world and a fierce defender of individual rights. A graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, he joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg.

He is the author of 27 works of fiction and nonfiction, including six bestsellers.

While he is known for defending clients such as Anatoly Sharansky, Claus von Bülow, O.J. Simpson, Michael Milken and Mike Tyson, he continues to represent numerous indigent defendants and takes half of his cases pro bono.

For details, call 508-645-3360.