Los Angeles The Brandeis Center announced today that it will conduct an inaugural national law student leadership training conference in Los Angeles, California on January 2-3, 2014. This inaugural national law student conference coincides with the launch of the Center’s new Law Student Chapter Initiative. The conference will draw law student leaders together to exchange lessons on advancing civil and human rights. Key topics will include campus anti-Semitism, international law, human rights, and freedom of speech. Attorney mentors will also discuss career paths for law students interested in advancing the civil and human rights and combating campus anti-Semitism. This announcement follows shortly upon the establishment of the first Brandeis Center law school chapters. This Fall, law student leaders have formed Brandeis Center chapters at UCLA School of Law and the American University’s Washington College of Law. Law students are also working to form Brandeis Center chapters at other law schools nationwide. LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus commented, “This national conference will be an important component not only in our new law student chapter initiative but also, more broadly, in our efforts to defeat campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism.” Last week, the Brandeis Center conducted a highly successful mini-conference at Fordham University School of Law on the controversial campaign to boycott, divest from, and impose sanctions on the State of Israel. Marcus added, “The enthusiastic audiences we have seen lately at UCLA, American and Fordham, as well as Columbia and Penn, bode well for our initiative to engage law students in the project of advancing civil and human rights.” The Brandeis Center urges law students who are interested in assuming leadership positions in its law school chapter program to contact Danit Sibovits at dsibovits@brandeiscenter.com, to visit the Brandeis Center’s web site or to call 202-756-1822. For more information on the Brandeis Center’s campaign against campus anti-Semitism, see the LDB Title VI Fact Sheet and the LDB Best Practices Guide for Combating Campus Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism.