The Institute for Law and Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law has recently announced their Summer Program for international Students and Attorneys. The program, to take place during June 27-July 14, 2016, is co-sponsored by the Brandeis Center along with several other groups such as StandWithUs and the Jewish Federations of North America. Fulltext of the Institute’s announcement can be found below: (Jerusalem, Israel) Yuval Shany, Dean of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, and Richard D. Heideman, Chairman of the Institute for Law and Policy, are pleased to announce the 2016 Institute Summer Program “Legal Aspects for the Middle East Conflict,” focusing on International Law, Human Rights, the International Criminal Court and Global Technology Law. The Institute, originally created in 1970, was re-established three years ago by Dean Shany and Heideman, in keeping with their common commitment to provide a high-level academic exposure for law and public policy students from multiple countries to the complexities of legal issues inherent in ongoing Middle East conflicts. More than forty students from 10 countries including Armenia, United States, Canada, Norway, Kenya, Uganda, Malaysia, Singapore and Israel have gleaned instrumental knowledge and experience provided by the expert lecturers and educators of the Institute. Opening on June 27, 2016, the 3-week program will provide in-depth analysis of Israel’s most important and exciting law and policy challenges, in fields such as the Middle East conflicts, human rights, economic globalization, and law and technology. The Institute is pleased to announce that Professor Luis Moreno Ocampo, former Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, will be lecturing this year in a special course focusing on the Role of the International Criminal Court and Other International Institutions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Lecturers previously appearing at the Institute include noted Human Rights advocate Professor Irwin Cotler, now head of the Raoul Wallenberg Center in Canada, and Professor Robbie Sabel, noted international law scholar at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law. At a time when Israel plays center-stage in controversies related to these issues, participants will not only engage in important analysis and debate, but will also experience the multicultural and multidimensional reality of the Jewish State. Professor Yuval Shany, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Hebrew University, emphasizes the value of the learning environment: “Jerusalem, with its rich history, religious diversity and political centrality, is one of the most exciting places in the world to study international law, conflict resolution and human rights. Our Summer Institute offers oversea participants a rich introduction to the issues confronting us here in Israel in the top-notch and pluralistic academic environment of Hebrew University.” Richard D. Heideman, Senior Counsel of the Washington DC global law firm Heideman Nudelman & Kalik, PC which focuses on protecting the rights of victims of terror, is the Co-Founder and Chairman of The Israel Forever Foundation and was the impetus behind the re-establishment of the Institute drawn from his experience as a student at the Faculty of Law at Hebrew University in the summers of 1970-72, Heideman stated today in Washington: “We believe the Institute for Law and Policy will have a lasting impact on influential legal and public policy minds of the future. Not only will participants again this year undergo a unique study program in a prominent academic setting, they will also return to their home countries with a greater understanding of Israeli society and the many issues and challenges facing the State of Israel in the context of the multiple ongoing Middle East conflicts.” The annual Institute for Law and Policy is an engaging summer program for international lawyers, law and public policy students at the Faculty of Law co-sponsored by The Israel Forever Foundation, Heideman Nudelman & Kalik PC, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Jewish Federations of North America, StandWithUs and the Rothberg International School. The Institute program is supported by the American Bar Association Section of International Law. Students and lawyers attending the program may be eligible to receive course and/or CLE credit. (more…)
Download PDF The Brandeis Center is pleased to announce its contribution to the newly released edited volume, Antisemitism in North America: New World, Old Hate (Leiden: Brill, 2016). In this new volume, editors Steven K. Baum, Neil J. Kressel, Florette Cohen, and Steven Leonard Jacobs have brought together an impressive array of scholars from diverse disciplines and political orientations to assess the condition of the Jews in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The contributors do not always agree with each other, but they offer perspectives on why the Jewish experience in North America has neither been free from anti-Semitism nor ever so unwelcoming and dangerous as the countries from which they came. LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus contributes an important chapter on “Antisemitism in North American Higher Education.” President Marcus’ chapter examines the paradox of contemporary campus anti-Semitism: universities should be oases of reason and tolerance, and yet they have become stages for the resurgence of an old hatred. In addition, Marcus discusses the sources of resurgent campus anti-Semitism, its manifestations in the United States and Canada, and the responses available to combat it. Finally, the chapter addresses the definition of anti-Semitism in the context of North American campuses. This is the issue to which Marcus dedicated his most recent book, The Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford: 2015). President Marcus commented, “I am pleased to contribute to this important publication and congratulate Steve Baum and his co-editors on their achievement. The resurgence of global anti-Semitism is an understudied field, and there is a critical need for more research in this area. It is not just an academic matter. We need more research because we need more action, and research-based action is important for success in public policy.” Marcus’s chapter on Anti-Semitism in North American Higher Education is just the latest in a series of recent publications in which LDB has explained the history, etiology, nature and consequences of resurgent anti-Semitism around the world and in North American higher education and provided practical solutions for how to combat anti-Semitism using law and public policy. Marcus explained: “The Brandeis Center’s lawyers have a unique perspective on anti-Semitism research, especially when it comes to campus anti-Semitism, because we are in the trenches fighting anti-Semitism everyday. At the same time, our research initiative strengthens our approach to law and public policy, because it provides a grounding in data, knowledge, and theory.” If you would like to learn more about the book, please follow the link below: Anti-Semitism in North America: New World, Old Hate (http://www.brill.com/products/book/antisemitism-north-america)