Events

Join LDB’s Founder and Chairman, Kenneth L. Marcus, presented by EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth) via Zoom, to discuss the the state of civil rights for Jews and other minorities in our nation’s educational institutions.

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.

On February 28, Professor Thane Rosenbaum will speak at Loyola Law School. Rosenbaum is a distinguished fellow at NYU School of Law, an essayist, law professor, and author of several novels. His articles, reviews and essays appear frequently in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Haaretz, Huffington Post and Daily Beast, among other national publications.

On February 25, LDB President & General Counsel Alyza Lewin will be speaking at Emory Law on her work litigating Zivotofsky v. Kerry, the “Jerusalem Passport Case” in front of the Supreme Court. Recently appointed to the position of President and General Counsel at the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Lewin is also a partner at Lewin & Lewin LLP, where she specializes in litigation and government relations.

On Wednesday, February 20, the Harvard LDB chapter will partner with Our Soldiers Speak to host Colonel Eli-Bar-On (Former Deputy Military Advocate General, IDF), to speak on “How the Israeli Defense Forces Implement the Law of Armed Conflict.”

On February 17-18, LDB will host their National Law Student Leadership Conference in D.C. Taking place in our nation’s capital, the LDB Conference will bring together law student leaders, legal scholars, and attorneys to exchange lessons on advancing civil and human rights; hot topics in international law; and using legal tools to combat campus anti-Semitism and BDS.

On February 11, LDB President Alyza D. Lewin will speak on a panel at the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (“JCPA”) National Conference in Washington, D.C. The panel, entitled “Exploring Anti-Semitism/Anti-Zionism on Campus” will address the increase in BDS activity on college campuses and how much of this BDS activity has morphed into anti-Semitism often parading as anti-Zionism.

On February 11, Northwestern Law Professor Eugene Kontorovich will speak at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School about anti-BDS laws and the First Amendment. Professor Kontorovich’s research spans the fields of constitutional law, international law, and law and economics.

On December 3, LDB’s President and General Counsel Alyza Lewin will speak at the Anti-Defamation League’s 2018 Annual Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate in New York City. Lewin will serve as a panelist at a session entitled Answering the Question: When is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitism?  This panel will examine the line between anti-Israel expressions and anti-Semitism. There […]

LDB’s President and General Counsel Alyza Lewin will be speaking at the 5th Israeli-American Council (IAC) National Conference. Lewin will be speaking on a panel on the topic of Hate Speech vs. Free Speech— BDS and the First Amendment. The conference marks Israel’s 70th Anniversary and will be held at The Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida from November 29 to December 2. In addition to her role at LDB, Lewin is also a partner in Lewin & Lewin LLP, where she specializes in litigation and government relations.