Law vs. Antisemitism: Inaugural Conference, Monday, March 14, and Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at IU McKinney School of Law. For more information, contact Professor Robert Katz at rokatz@iupui.edu. The conference program includes the following sessions:
PLENARY SESSIONS
SESSION A: A View From The Bench
Hon. Randall Shepard, IU McKinney and former Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, “Using State Law and State Constitutions to Fight Antisemitism”
SESSION B: Jewishness and Civil Rights Discourses
Prof. Lila Corwin Berman, Temple University, “Antisemitism in the ‘Golden Land’: Is America Different?”
Prof. James Loeffler, University of Virginia, “Blind Justice: Rethinking Law and Difference in American History”
SESSION C: What Is Antisemitism?
Derek Penslar, Harvard University, “The IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and JDA (Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism) Definitions Assessed”
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
SESSION 1: Family Law
SESSION 2: Jews and the Legal Profession in Europe Before WWII
SESSION 3: Legal and Non-Legal Interventions Responses to Campus Antisemitism
SESSION 4: Jewish Lawyers, Criminal Defendants, and Witnesses in Late 19th/Early 20th Century America
SESSION 5: No Space for Jews: Jews, Public Accommodations Law, and Zoning Law
SESSION 6: Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism
SESSION 7: First Amendment Religion Clauses
SESSION 8: Looking (Too) Jewish: Antisemitism and Visual Representations of Jewish Identity
SESSION 9: Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Antisemitism; Jews as Race/Religious Group
SESSION 10: Antisemitism in French Law
SESSION 11: Using Speech Law Against Anti-Semites
SESSION 12: Post-Holocaust Law and Remembrance in Europe
SESSION 13: Author Meets Readers: Jared Goldstein, Real Americans: National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution (2021)
SESSION 14: Jews and Law in Post-WWII America
SESSION 15: Hate Speech and Its Regulation Under the First Amendment
SESSION 16: Boycotts, BDS (Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions movement) and Anti-BDS Laws
SESSION 17: Nazi Law
SESSION 18: Christianity and Antisemitism in the History of International Law
SESSION 19: Protecting Jews Under US and UK Civil Rights Law
SESSION 20: Holocaust Reparations Through Law
SESSION 21: Fighting Antisemitism: The View from Indiana