October 18-19, 2016 University of St. Thomas and University of Minnesota LDB Senior Staff Attorney Jennie Gross will address the LDB Law Student Chapter at the University of St. Thomas on Tuesday, Oct. 18, and at the University of Minnesota on Wednesday, October 19. Ms. Gross will speak about anti-Semitism, civil rights, and the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. Jennie joined LDB earlier this year with ten years of experience litigating in federal courts on behalf of plaintiffs in class actions, mass torts, including the Vioxx litigation, antitrust litigation against Microsoft, and complex litigation against the tobacco industry. Jennie also has strong background in policy analysis, and is the co-author of the textbook Class Actions Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain, which has been used to teach complex litigation to law students. More recently, Jennie completed a fellowship in Tobacco Regulatory Science at FDA. Jennie graduated from Emory University (BA, Economics) and the University of Southern California Law Center (JD). She is also a former Doctoral Fellow in public policy at the RAND Corporation.
Download PDF Washington D.C, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) is pleased to welcome two new Civil Rights Legal Fellows to the staff, Hana Ma and Rachel Leach. LDB is a national non-profit civil rights legal advocacy organization committed to combating anti-Semitism in higher education. LDB’s President & General Counsel Kenneth L. Marcus commented, “We are pleased to welcome our new team members, who join at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise on a national scale and their skills will be put to good use. We are confident they will add to our growing list of legal accomplishments.” Hana majored in law and English as an undergraduate student and became very interested in a variety of legal topics such as cross-border insolvency law, U.S. constitutional law and international humanitarian law. She was awarded China Oxford Scholar at Oxford and F.Y. Chang Scholar at Harvard, and is committed to inter-cultural exchanges and learning.