Starting this weekend, The Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism at Indiana University (ISCA) will host its third international scholars conference, from Saturday evening, April 3 through Wednesday, April 7, on “Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Dynamics of Delegitimization.” LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus will chair a panel on Tuesday, April 5, with Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaking on The New Supersessionism: ID Theft of the Jewish Narrative, and Richard Landes, a professor and historian at Boston University, speaking on The Global Progressive Left, Anti-Zionism, and Secular Supersessionism. The conference will bring together about 70 scholars from 15 countries, and aims to explore the thinking that informs contemporary anti-Zionism and to clarify the ties such thinking may have with anti-Semitism and broader ideological, political, and cultural currents of thought. Dr. Alvin Rosenfield , a member of the Brandeis Center’s legal advisory board and director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism is leading the conference., In addition to Dr. Rosenfield, LDB is pleased to have connections to many of the other speakers and participants. Irwin Cotler, the LDB Legal Advisory Board Honorary Chair, will give a keynote address at a dinner event on April 3, on Global Anti-Semitism, Demonization, and the Laundering of Delegitimization Under Universal Public Values. Additionally, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a member of LDB’s academic advisory board ,will speak about campus anti-Semitism on the morning of April 4th. LDB academic advisory board members Dina Porat and Catherine Chatterley will speak on Vatican-Jewish Relations Following the Holocaust and The Effects of Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, and Anti-Israel Politics on Contemporary Holocaust Education and Memorialization later on that same day. More information can be found here: http://www.indiana.edu/~iscaweb/docs/isc_agenda_2016-03-07.pdf
LDB Staff Attorney Aviva Vogelstein Harvard University School of Law, Thursday, 12pm On Thursday, March 31, LDB Staff Attorney Aviva Vogelstein will travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to launch the 18th (“chai”) LDB law student chapter at Harvard University. Vogelstein will speak on “Fighting the New Anti-Semitism,” and will discuss the various opportunities LDB can offer to Harvard law students. Vogelstein, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA ’10) and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (JD ’13) has worked with the Brandeis Center for two years. Her work focuses on combating the resurgence of anti-Semitism on American university campuses through legal and public policy approaches, as well as growing LDB’s Law Student Chapter Initiative, to train the next generation of lawyers to use their legal tools to fight anti-Semitism.
Download PDF WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Oren Gross, Irving Younger Professor of Law and the Director of the Institute for International Legal & Security Studies at the University of Minnesota Law School, to LDB’s Academic Advisory Board. As an internationally recognized expert in the areas of international law and national security law, in addition to being an expert on the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Gross’ knowledge will help to strengthen the Brandeis Center’s expertise. LDB, a national civil rights organization, is best known for its work fighting anti-Semitism in higher education. Professor Gross will be joining an array of renowned scholars on the Academic Advisory Board, including Hon. Irwin Cotler (Honorary Chair), David E. Bernstein, Catherine Chatterley, Karen Eltis, Lesley Klaff, David Menashri, Dina Porat, Walter Reich, Jeffery S. Robbins, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Dawinder S. Sidhu, Charles A. Small, Gregory H. Stanton, and Ruth R. Wisse. LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus commented, “We are very grateful for Professor Gross and his extensive expertise, and we are looking forward to working with him. He is a distinguished scholar and we are excited to include his voice to our organization.” About Professor Oren Gross Professor Gross is the Irving Younger Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He was a member of the faculty of the Tel Aviv University Law School in Israel from 1996 to 2002. He has also taught and held visiting positions at Harvard Law School (where he held the position of Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems in 2012-13); Princeton University; Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; the Max Planck Institute for International Law and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg, Germany; the Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast (while a British Academy visiting professor); Queen’s University in Belfast; the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain); and Brandeis University. Professor Gross has received numerous academic awards and scholarships, including a Fulbright scholarship and British Academy and British Council awards. Between 1986 and 1991, Professor Gross served as a senior legal advisory officer in the international law branch of the Israeli Defense Forces’ Judge Advocate General’s Corps. In 1998, he served as the legal adviser to an Israeli delegation that negotiated an agreement with the Palestinian Authority’s senior officials concerning the economic component of a permanent status agreement between Israel and Palestine. Professor Gross’s work has been published extensively. His articles appeared in leading academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Yale Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of International Law, Minnesota Law Review, Florida Law Review and Cardozo Law Review. His book, Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice, co-authored with Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 and was awarded the prestigious Certificate of Merit for Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship by the American Society of International Law in 2007. His most recent book, Guantanamo and Beyond: Exceptional Courts and Military Commissions in Comparative Perspective, co-edited with Professor Ní Aoláin, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Professor Gross joined the University of Minnesota in 2002 and was appointed as the Vance K. Opperman research scholar in 2003 and the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law in 2004. In 2004 he was also the recipient of the John K. & Elsie Lampert Fesler Research Grant. He was appointed as the Irving Younger Professor of Law in 2005. Professor Gross practiced law at Sullivan and Cromwell in 1995-1996 and is a member of both the New York and Israeli bars. In 2008 he joined the American Law Institute as an elected member.