Events

Join LDB’s President, Alyza D. Lewin, via Zoom on the Edwin Black Show, to discuss the explosion of openly anti-Semitic speech and campus hate against Jews.  Just how bad is the threat to the Jewish community – join Edwin’s show and watch Alyza Lewin, President of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice-Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, explore the threat and explosion of Jew-hatred in America.

On April 17, Professor Amos Guiora will speak at the University of California-Los Angeles. He will discuss issues and arguments from his internationally acclaimed book The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust.

On April 9, Northwestern Law Professor Eugene Kontorovich will speak to the LDB law student chapters at the University of Chicago and DePaul University law schools about anti-BDS laws and the First Amendment.

On April 8, LDB President & General Counsel Alyza Lewin will speak at Cleveland Marshall College of Law to launch LDB’s 20th, and newest, law student Chapter.

On April 2, Professor Amos Guiora will speak at the University of Virginia. He will discuss issues and arguments from his internationally acclaimed book The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust.

On March 25, Professor Amos Guiora will speak at Northeastern University School of Law. He will discuss issues and arguments from his internationally acclaimed book The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Law at the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law and is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Israel Defense Forces.

LDB President Alyza D. Lewin will speak to a Hadassah Forum at the AIPAC Policy Conference on “Using the Law to Combat Anti-Semitism.” Anti-Semitism and efforts to boycott Israel are on the rise. Legal tools provide a mechanism to address this growing scourge.

On Thursday, March 14, Professor Alexander Tsesis will address the Penn LDB Law Student Chapter on “Terrorism, the First Amendment, and the Internet.” Tsesis, a professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, is an expert in Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, Civil Procedure, as well as civil rights issues and constitutional interpretation.

On March 4th, the Hon. Prof. Irwin Cotler will participate in a Q&A with Dean Goluboff at UVA. 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.