Henry Mark Holzer
I received my B.A. degree from New York University, where I studied Russian and political science.
I then served in Korea with military intelligence, holding top secret security clearance, where I was Chief Order of Battle Analyst (Chinese Communist Forces) for Eighth Army.
I received my Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law. For over forty years, I have practiced in New York City and elsewhere in the United States, specializing in constitutional and appellate law.
Over the years I represented, among others: dissidents fleeing communism for freedom in the west; physicians, choking on government regulation; young men resisting conscription and the quagmire of Vietnam; "gold bugs" seeking to protect their assets from inflation; women seeking to avoid abuse by men and by the bureaucracy; political candidates struggling against campaign finance restrictions that violated the First Amendment; publishers opposing censorship; political refugees battling the INS; homeowners fighting destruction of their neighborhoods; students suffering from affirmative action. I represented Objectivists, the disciples of Ayn Rand, and Ms.Rand herself. I represented defendants appealing unjust verdicts, and constitutionalists who stood up to government's attempt to trash the Bill of Rights.
In addition to my law practice, for over two-decades I was a full-time tenured professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, where I am now Professor Emeritus. My courses included Constitutional Law, First Amendment, National Security, and Appellate Advocacy.
I am the author of nearly one hundred articles, essays, and reviews. I regularly publish commentary on current legal events on Frontpagemag.com
Five of my out-of-print books — The Gold Clause; Government's Money Monopoly; Sweet Land of Liberty? The Supreme Court and Individual Rights; The Layman's Guide to Tax Evasion; and Speaking Freely: The Case Against Speech Codes — are sold by various Internet booksellers. Click here.
I am co-author — with my wife, lawyer and novelist Erika Holzer — of "Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda in North Vietnam, which explores and answers the question of whether Fonda's trip to Hanoi and her activities there constituted treason.
Our most recent book — Fake Warriors: Identifying, Exposing, and Punishing Those Who Falsify Their Military Service — was published in May 2003.
My forthcoming monograph, "Why Not Call It Treason?: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Today," will be published in the fall. Information about the monograph will be posted here as it becomes available.
My legal practice is limited to constitutional and appellate cases.
How Americans Lost Their Right To Own Gold And Became Criminals in the Process