LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus University of Chicago Law School 12:15pm 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.” Marcus, the Founder and President of LDB, author of the award-winning Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America (New York: Cambridge University Press: 2010) and The Definition of Anti-Semitism (New York: Oxford University Press: 2015), founded the Brandeis Center in 2011 to combat the resurgence of anti-Semitism in American higher education. Before starting the Brandeis Center, Marcus served as a partner in several Biglaw firms. He then worked in public service, serving as Staff Director at the United States Commission on Civil Rights and was delegated the authority of Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights and Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity governance.