In 1947 during the anti-cosmopolitan campaign he was accused by the leadership of the academy of admiration for the "bourgeois West" for publishing his fundamental research Lawyer Secret [ru][a] (Адвокатская тайна).

[2][3] Alter Tsypkin was born on 16 February 1891 in Poltava, Russian Empire, into a Jewish family.

[4] In 1922 he graduated from the law faculty of the Kharkov Institute of National Economy [Wikidata].

On May 13, 1955, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: "The constitutional right to defense in the Soviet criminal process."

[4] On 15 September 1961 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet for his great services in the training of specialists and the development of science.