Join us on Wednesday, November 3 at 2pm Eastern for the kickoff of our Fall and Winter Speaker Series, “The Legal Case Against BDS,” featuring Jesse Fried, Eugene Kontorovich and Benjamin Ryberg!

 

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Jesse Fried

Jesse M. Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2009, Fried was a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) at the University of California Berkeley. Fried has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School, Duisenberg School of Finance, Hebrew University, IDC Herzilya, and Tel Aviv University. He holds an A.B. and A.M in Economics from Harvard University, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. His well-known book Pay without Performance: the Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation, co-authored with Lucian Bebchuk, has been widely acclaimed by both academics and practitioners and translated into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. Fried has served as a consultant and expert witness in litigation involving executive compensation and corporate governance issues. He also serves on the Research Advisory Council of proxy advisor Glass, Lewis & Co.
Eugene Kontorovich

Professor of Law Eugene Kontorovich is one of the world’s preeminent experts on universal jurisdiction and maritime piracy, as well as international law and the Israel-Arab conflict. He is also the Director of Scalia Law School’s Center for the Middle East and International Law. Professor Kontorovich joined the Scalia Law School from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law where he was a Professor of Law from 2011 to 2018 and an Associate Professor from 2007 to 2011. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago from 2005 to 2007 and an Assistant Professor at George Mason School of Law from 2003 to 2007.

Professor Kontorovich has published over thirty major scholarly articles and book chapters in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals in the United States and Europe, including the American Journal of International Law, International Review of Law & Economics, Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. His scholarship has been cited by appellate courts in the U.S. and around the world.

His expertise is often sought out and quoted by major news organizations such the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR News, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, and numerous television and radio programs. Prof. Kontorovich’s popular writings have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, POLITICO, Commentary, Haaretz, and numerous other leading publications. He is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages.

He attended the University of Chicago for college and law school. After law school, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He has been honored with a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in 2011-12, and with the Federalist Society’s prestigious Bator Award, given annually to a young scholar (under 40), for outstanding scholarship and teaching.

Benjamin Ryberg

Benjamin Ryberg, an attorney, is the Chief Operating Officer and Director of Research at The Lawfare Project, the only international organization dedicated to enforcing and protecting the civil and human rights of the Jewish people via strategic legal actions.

Benjamin received his undergraduate degree with a double major in Economics and Organizational Studies from the University of Michigan, and his Juris Doctor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. At Cardozo, Benjamin served as Senior Articles Editor of the Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, which published his note, Pro-Competitive or Protective?: The Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law, Implications for the United States, and Bilateral Antitrust Cooperation as an Effective Response.

In 2013, he was profiled in The Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36” list of young visionaries. A seasoned public speaker, he has appeared on radio and television programming and addressed a range of audiences including at the AIPAC Policy Conference, the Alpha Epsilon Pi International Convention, and the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs Global Coalition for Israel summits.