Kenneth L. Marcus, an attorney who has championed the use of the 1964 federal civil rights act to investigate allegations of antisemitism on campus, has been appointed assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education.

The man President Trump has tapped for the critical job of chief of civil rights in the Education Department is the president of a Jewish center for human rights who has been critical of campus supporters of a Palestinian-led campaign to divest from Israel and who previously served in the George W. Bush administration.

The head of a prominent Jewish human rights group has been chosen for the top civil rights post at the US Department of Education, the White House announced on Thursday.

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law congratulates LDB President and General Counsel Kenneth L. Marcus on the occasion of his nomination to the position of Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights.

On Tuesday, October 24, Supreme Court litigator Alyza Lewin will address LDB students at UC Berkeley School of Law on her work litigating the “Jerusalem Passport Case” in front of the Supreme Court.

On Monday, October 23, Northwestern Law Professor Eugene Kontorovich will speak to Emory Law’s LDB Law Student Chapter.

Rabbi Michael Ragozin was particularly fired up during his 2016 Kol Nidre sermon at Congregation Shirat Hayam. The topic was anti-Semitism on college campuses, an issue he said “Gets me in the kishkes.

DB’s Director of Legal Initiatives, Aviva Vogelstein, will speak to law students at two of LDB’s West Coast law student chapters in the coming weeks.

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) announced this afternoon the election of leading Boston litigator Jeffery S. Robbins Esq., to the Center’s Board of Directors. Mr. Robbins, who previously served as a member of LDB’s Legal Advisory Board, was elected during LDB’s Annual Meeting on October 12.