Events

On Tuesday evening, April 12, LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus will deliver an address to the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, on the topic of his latest book, “The Definition of Anti-Semitism.”

The LDB chapter at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School will host Professor Abraham Bell on April 12, to speak on the topic of “International Law, Lawfare, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.”

LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus will be speaking at the StandWithUs Counter-BDS Conference in Los Angeles on April 9-11.

On Thursday, April 7, Professor Eugene Kontorovich of Northwestern University Law School will speak to LDB students at Harvard Law School on State Anti-BDS Laws.

On Tuesday, April 5, LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus will chair a panel on anti-Semitism at the Indiana University Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism’s (ISCA) third international scholars conference.

On Tuesday, April 5, Professor Alexander Tsesis of Loyola University Chicago Law School will speak to the LDB law student chapter at the University of California at Berkeley on the topic of, “Terrorist Incitement on the Internet.” 

The current Chief Legal Advisor to the Israeli National Police, BG Shaul Gordon, will be speaking to the LDB Law Student Chapters at Harvard University

At CUNY Law School on Wednesday, March 30, Dr. Aleksandra Gliszcznska-Grabias will speak on, “Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in cases concerning anti-Semitism.”

On Wednesday, March 30, Professor Alex Tsesis of Chicago – Loyola School of Law will speak to the LDB law student chapter at the University of Minnesota on the topic of, “Free Speech in the Age of the Internet.”

LDB President Marcus will address the LDB chapter at the University of Chicago Law School on Tuesday, March 29. He will speak on the topic of “Making Dollars or Making Change: BigLaw, Human Rights, and the Purposeful Lawyer.”

On Monday, March 28, Prof. Jacobson will address the Chicago-Loyola LDB Law Student Chapter on the topic of “The Case for Academic Freedom Against BDS.”

On Monday, March 28, Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson will speak at the University of Chicago on the topic of, “ When Does Anti-Israelism turn into Anti-Semitism?”

On Monday, March 28, LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus will speak on a panel at Northwestern University Law School on the topic of, “Beyond Biglaw: Alternative Career Paths in the Law?”

At the University of Virginia School of Law, Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias will speak at an event hosted by LDB’s UVA chapter about her work on advancing an international treaty that would provide protection against discrimination and hatred based on anti-semitism and other religious grounds.

In Minneapolis, LDB’s President Kenneth L. Marcus will participate in a University of Minnesota panel discussion on the current situation of anti-Semitism in Europe.

Cornell University’s Law School’s LDB Chapter will host a talk by Professor Eugene Kontorovich of Northwestern University Law School on “The New Anti-Discrimination: State Laws on Israel Boycott.”

On Wednesday, March 2, 2016, LDB Attorney Aviva Vogelstein will speak on a panel entitled, “The Battle on Campus and What BDS Means.” The Panel is part of a 5-part series for Baltimore Jewish communal professionals, lay leaders, and students on “New Frontiers in Confronting Anti-Semitism.”

LDB will conduct its third annual national law students’ leadership conference in the San Francisco Bay Area, featuring prominent scholars and practitioners of civil and human rights law, including U.S., international, and comparative law experts.

On Wednesday, February 10, the University of Pennsylvania LDB Chapter will host Professor Alexander Tsesis, to speak on the topic of “Terrorism, the Internet and the First Amendment.”

On Thursday, February 4, Cardozo’s LDB Chapter will host Professor Eugene Kontorovich, who will speak about how group boycotts, such as BDS, violate U.S. law. Kontorovich is one of the world’s preeminent experts on international law and the Israel-Arab conflict.