By unanimous decision, the Miami-Dade County (FL) Association of Chiefs of Police passed a resolution recognizing the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism when investigating crimes.
On Thursday, March 8, Professor Alexander Tsesis will speak to the newest LDB law student chapter at Case Western Reserve University School of Law on the topic of, "Campus Speech and the First Amendment."
February saw several advances in the battle against anti-Semitism. The Brandeis Center held its Fifth Annual Law Student Leadership Conference, where young legal scholars were equipped with tools to combat anti-Semitism on their campuses.
On Wednesday, March 7, Northwestern Law Professor Eugene Kontorovich will speak to LDB students at Harvard Law. Professor Kontorovich's research spans the fields of constitutional law, international law, and law and economics.
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Democratic obstruction in the Senate has left the Department of Education without leadership in its office of civil rights at a time when anti-Semitism has risen by 94 percent in U.S. schools.
On Friday, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) filed an amicus brief in support of HB 2617, an Arizona state law that requires state contractors to certify that they are not "engaging in a boycott of Israel." The Brandeis Center filed its brief in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenging the First Amendment implications of the law.
On Wednesday, Feb 8 - Thursday, Feb 9, LDB’s Director of Legal Initiatives Aviva Vogelstein and LDB’s Civil Rights Legal Fellow, Roee Talmor, will speak at three of Chicago’s LDB law student chapters. On Wednesday, Vogelstein and Talmor will address LDB students at Chicago-Kent College of Law about Using the Law to Combat Campus Anti-Semitism.
The first month of 2018 saw much progress in the struggle against anti-Semitism. The Brandeis Center, a leader of the reform coalition advocating for changes in Title VI of the Higher Education Opportunities Act, joined an impressive group of national organizations in urging the U.S. Senate HELP committee to reform Middle East Studies .
Late last week, more than a dozen Jewish and civil rights groups lobbied Congress to stop an abuse of federal education funds under a law related to higher education.
