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Published by Jewish Press on 2/07/2025 The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced on Thursday that it will establish a team of nearly 20 lawyers and legal staff to focus on litigating cases of antisemitism. This initiative will be supported by external counsel from prominent national law firms. The new legal […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 2/06/2025 As the Trump administration’s Department of Education vows to open investigations into five universities alleged to have discriminated against Jewish students, more than a dozen prominent attorneys are joining together to exclusively litigate against antisemitism on campus and beyond, Jewish Insider has learned. Called the Center for Legal Innovation (CLI), the […]

Published by Reuters on 2/06/2025 Feb 6 (Reuters) – The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law said Thursday it is launching a new public interest legal group to take schools, companies, unions and other defendants to court over allegations of antisemitism. Brandeis Center founder and chairman Kenneth Marcus said the new group, […]

Published by Law.com on 2/06/2025 Citing a rise in antisemitic crime, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced Thursday it created The Center for Legal Innovation (CLI), a public interest litigation group that will focus on using “the law to combat all forms of anti-Semitism”, including in the workplace, with regard […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 2/03/2025 The Department of Education is taking its first major action under the new administration to combat antisemitism, launching investigations into alleged antisemitic discrimination at Columbia University; the University of California, Berkeley; Portland State University; Northwestern University and University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. The Department of Education under the Biden […]

Published by Forward on 1/30/2025 The executive order on antisemitism signed by President Donald Trump Wednesday was far less sweeping than the rhetoric that preceded and surrounded it. But the order’s primary directive appeared to lay the groundwork for more dramatic action in the coming months, heartening those who believe such action is overdue while prompting fear […]

Published by Jewish Insider on 2/10/2025 The Supreme Court is set to hear a case in the coming months to decide whether American victims of Palestinian terror attacks can sue the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority for damages based on support for such attacks through the “pay for slay” program that compensates individuals who […]

Published by IHE on 1/28/2025 The definition has been at the center of debates over campus antisemitism for years. Now, Harvard has become the second university to officially add it into its nondiscrimination policy—to mixed reactions. Harvard University is facing backlash for its decision to incorporate the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, a polarizing definition […]