Alan Hirsch
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| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) |
| Occupation(s) | Justice & Law Studies Professor, Expert Witness & Trial Consultant |
| Spouse | Marjorie Hirsch |
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| Institutions | Williams College |
| Website | truthaboutfalseconfessions |
Alan L. Hirsch is an American academic who has taught at Williams College since 2006, and has chaired the Justice and Law Studies program for most of that time. Hirsch, who received his BA from Amherst College and JD at Yale Law School, serves as a trial consultant and expert witness in false confessions. He has been retained in roughly 400 cases and testified in 50.[1] Hirsch testified in the highly-publicized case of Skylar Richardson, a teenage girl accused of killing her newborn baby and burying it in her backyard. Richardson was acquitted.[2]
He has written extensively about false confessions, and been qualified as an expert in 24 jurisdictions. He created the first website devoted to the subject and also created a podcast about False Confessions. Hirsch has also written numerous books, as well as scholarly and mainstream articles on other subjects, some law-related and others about politics, sports, and miscellaneous matters.
After graduating from Yale Law School in 1985, Hirsch served as a law clerk for Judge Edward Becker on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. He later spent three years as a Senior Attorney/Writer at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. Ever since, he has been primarily a writer, professor, and trial consultant. He also worked as a senior consultant at UCLA School of Law's Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy.
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