Academic Advisory Board

The Louis D. Brandeis Center, Inc. (LDB) is an independent, non-partisan institution for public interest advocacy, research and education. The Center’s mission is to advance the civil and human rights of the Jewish people and to promote justice for all.

David E. Bernstein

George Mason University

David E. Bernstein is a University Professor of Law; Executive Director, Liberty & Law Center at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia, where he has been teaching since 1995, interspersed with visiting appointments at the Georgetown, Michigan, and Brooklyn law schools.

Catherine Chatterley

University of Manitoba, Canada
Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA)

Dr. Catherine Chatterley is the Founding Director of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) and Editor-In Chief of its new periodical, Antisemitism Studies, published by Indiana University Press.

Irwin Cotler

Honorary Chair
Member of Parliament, Retired (Canada)

Irwin Cotler is Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and longtime Parliamentarian, and recent Founder and International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.

Richard Cravatts

President Emeritus, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

Dr. Cravatts has published over 400 articles, op-ed pieces, columns, and chapters in books on campus anti-Semitism, campus free speech, terrorism, Constitutional law, Middle East politics, and is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel.

Karen Eltis

University of Ottawa, Canada
Columbia University

Professor Karen Eltis is a tenured faculty member at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa, Canada (Section de droit civil) and a Visiting Scholar and Associate Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School.

Professor Oren Gross

Irving Younger Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School

Professor Oren 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.

Lesley Klaff

Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Haifa University, Israel

Lesley Klaff is a senior lecturer in law at Sheffield Hallam University, an affiliate professor of law at Haifa University, and an associate editor for the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism. She is expert in law and anti-Semitism, social and legal theory, and the English legal system.

David Menashri

President of the College of Law and Business

David Menashri is President of the College of Law and Business, Israel, and a renowned scholar of Iranian Studies and anti-Semitism. He is the founding director of the Center for Iranian Studies and the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian History at Tel Aviv University.

Dina Porat

Kantor Center for the study of Contemporary European Jewry

Dina Porat, a Tel Aviv University professor of Jewish History and the chief historian of Yad Vashem, served as head of the Department of Jewish History, the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, and the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism.

Walter Reich

George Washington University

Walter Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington University and a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Steven H. Resnicoff

DePaul University College of Law

Steven H. Resnicoff is a professor at DePaul University College of Law, where he has received numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, and director of its Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies (JLJS).

Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Indiana University

Alvin Rosenfeld is Director of The Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies and English at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Tammi Rossman Benjamin

UC Santa Cruz

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is cofounder and director of AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization that investigates, documents and combats anti-Semitism at institutions of higher education in America.

Dawinder S. Sidhu

University of New Mexico

Dawinder “Dave” S. Sidhu is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico and has held positions at Oxford University Faculty of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard University’s Pluralism Project, the University of Baltimore School of Law, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

Charles A. Small

Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Founding Director and President of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), and the Koret Distinguished Scholar, Stanford University, Hoover Institution.

Gregory H. Stanton

Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at George Mason University

Professor Stanton has received degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Law School and a masters and doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Ruth R. Wisse

Harvard University

Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and has taught at McGill, Stanford, New York, Hebrew and Tel Aviv universities.