On October 29th, the LDB chapter at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law will host Professor Amos N. Guiora; and on October 30th, the LDB Chapter at Chicago-Kent College of Law will host Prof. Guiora, to discuss issues and arguments from his internationally acclaimed book The Crime of Complicity.
Our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with the Squirrel Hill Jewish community and the families of the victims of the horrific anti-Semitic shooting that took place yesterday at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
On October 24th, the LDB chapter at UCLA School of Law will host Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer to Rabbi Gross-Schaefer is a Professor of Marketing and Business Law at the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University.
On October 22, LDB’s President and General Counsel Alyza Lewin and LDB’s Director of Legal Initiatives Aviva Vogelstein will speak at the Fifth Annual National Conference of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists.
On October 16th, the LDB chapter at Cornell Law School will host Professor Abraham Bell to speak on International Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflct.
On October 10th, the LDB chapter at Emory University School of Law will host Professor Alexander Tsesis to speak on the topic of Campus Regulation of Hate Speech and the First Amendment.
On October 9, LDB’s Director of Legal Initiatives Aviva Vogelstein will speak at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law to launch LDB’s newest law student chapter. Vogelstein graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, magna cum laude, with a BA in American History, and from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2013.
On Wednesday, October 3, Natasha Hausdorff will address the LDB Chapter at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on the topic, “Jerusalem & International Law.”
“U.S. Revives Rutgers Bias Case in New Tack on Anti-Semitism” (front page, Sept. 12) asserted that our organization, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, presses campuses to “squelch anti-Israel speech and activities” and urges “colleges and universities to discipline students who are part of the B.D.S. movement” (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions). Nothing could be further from the truth.
As reports of anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses rise, the U.S. Department of Education's office of civil rights has reopened a probe, previously closed under President Barack Obama's administration, of 2011 allegations that Rutgers University discriminated against Jewish students, the New York Times reported.
