Download PDF WASHINGTON, D.C. – This afternoon, LDB announced topics and speakers for its Third Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area later this month, culminating an extraordinary amount of LDB chapter activity at law schools around the country. LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus commented, “This month our students have hosted extraordinary events in Berkeley, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, and Philadelphia – including four events in Chicago alone – following important law school programs last month in Atlanta, Boston, and Seattle. The culmination of our February schedule will be a fantastic national law student leadership conference in Northern California, which will be followed by many more events around the country later in the Spring.” LDB’s Third Annual National Law Student Leadership Conference will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on February 21-22. The conference will bring together law student leaders, legal scholars, and attorneys for education and training on such topics as civil rights advocacy; international human rights law; and the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The conference will feature speakers including international law expert Avi Bell, civil rights attorney Joel Siegal, international anti-Semitism expert Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, and LDB President & General Counsel Kenneth L. Marcus. Recent LDB chapter events include the following: February 3 – LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus addressed UC Berkeley Law School’s LDB chapter on “From BigLaw to Public Interest Advocate: Fighting Anti-Semitism and Racism.” February 3 – LDB Staff Attorney Aviva Vogelstein addressed Loyola University Chicago’s LDB law school chapter on “Fighting Campus Anti-Semitism and BDS.” February 4 – Northwestern University Law School Professor Eugene Kontorovich addressed the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law’s LDB chapter on how certain boycotts, such as the BDS movement, violate U.S. law. February 10 – Chicago Loyola Law Professor Alexander Tsesis addressed LDB’s University of Pennsylvania School of Law chapter on “Terrorism, the Internet and the First Amendment.” February 10 – Professor Eugene Kontorovich addressed the LDB chapter at the University of Minnesota’s law school on Israel’s Borders and International Law, together with the Federalist Society. On February 11, Professor Eugene Kontorovich addressed the University of St. Thomas’s LDB Chapter and the UST Federalist Society chapter on the topic of BDS.