Events

LDB’s Alyza Lewin will present the commencement address at the University of Maryland’s alternative commencement for students who are unable to participate in the larger university-wide graduation program that will be held on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.

On Friday, May 11, Aviva Vogelstein, LDB’s Director of Legal Initiatives, has been invited to testify at a United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) Public Briefing, “In the Name of Hate: Examining the Federal Government’s Role in Responding to Hate Crimes.”

Supreme Court litigator Alyza Lewin will address LDB students at UChicago School of Law on her work litigating the “Jerusalem Passport Case” in front of the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, April 17, Amanda Berman will address students at UC Berkeley on the topic of of the exclusion of Jews in progressive spaces. Ms. Berman is the Director of Legal Affairs at The Lawfare Project. In addition to her role as an attorney, she liaises with the American and international Jewish community on behalf […]

On April 4, Professor Alexander Tsesis will speak to the UVA LDB law student chapter on the topic of, “Campus Regulation of Hate Speech and the First Amendment.” 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 Wednesday, March 28, Mitch Webber will address students at Emory University School of Law on the topic of defining bias. Mr. Webber is a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he focuses on securities fraud, antitrust, complex commercial disputes, internal investigations, and white-collar criminal matters.

On Wednesday, March 21, Gabriel Groisman – a lawyer, writer, speaker, and the Mayor of Bal Harbour, Florida – will address the LDB chapter at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.   Mayor Groisman wrote and passed the nation’s first municipal anti-BDS ordinance as well as the nation’s first codification of a uniform definition of anti-Semitism. 

On Tuesday, March 20, Professor Oren Gross will address the LDB chapter at Loyola Chicago School of Law on the Legality of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capitol. Prof. Gross, the Irving Younger Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of international law and national security law

On Monday, March 19, civil rights attorney Joel H. Siegal, a member of the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s Legal Advisory Board, will speak to the LDB chapter at the University of Viriginia School of Law, about Title XI &Title IV cases.

On Wednesday, March 14, the Cardozo LDB chapter along with the Jewish Law Students Association will host the Lawfare Project’s founder and executive director Brooke Goldstein, Chief Operating Officer & Director of Research Benjamin Ryberg, and Director of Legal Affairs Amanda Berman, to speak on the topic of “Litigating to Uphold the Rights of the Jewish People.”