Antisemitism and the Law

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Antisemitism and the Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2025) is the first casebook and systematic scholarly treatment devoted to the study of law and antisemitism.

Although law schools routinely examine legal issues involving race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, and other forms of discrimination, antisemitism has rarely been studied systematically as a legal phenomenon. Antisemitism and the Law seeks to help fill that gap by providing a comprehensive framework for studying the legal dimensions of antisemitism across jurisdictions, historical periods, and institutional settings.

The book examines how legal systems have classified, regulated, protected, excluded, and marginalized Jews across history, and how Jews and their allies have used law to pursue equality, security, and flourishing. More broadly, it explores the paradoxical role of law itself: law as both an instrument of oppression and a means of liberation.

Drawing upon constitutional law, civil rights law, anti-discrimination law, hate speech regulation, legal history, Jewish studies, political theory, comparative law, and antisemitism studies, the book seeks to help establish Law and Antisemitism as an emerging field of scholarly inquiry and professional education.

• Jewish identity and legal classification;
• Jews as race, religion, ethnicity, and peoplehood;
• civil rights and anti-discrimination law;
• campus antisemitism and Title VI;
• antisemitic speech and group defamation;
• comparative hate speech regulation;
• Zionism, anti-Zionism, and the law;
• law, memory, and Holocaust denial;
• religious liberty and free expression; and
• legal advocacy and institutional responses.

The book is designed for:

• law school courses on antisemitism and the law;
• courses in Jewish studies, Holocaust studies, and antisemitism studies;
• lawyers and policymakers working on civil rights, higher education, and hate crimes;
• scholars interested in law, religion, race, minority rights, and democratic institutions; and
• general readers seeking a deeper understanding of antisemitism as a legal and institutional phenomenon.

Professor Stephen Macedo of Princeton University writes that “Professor Katz is building the foundation for a new field of study.”

Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, describes the book as “a comprehensive and thoughtful examination of the many issues surrounding antisemitism and the law.”

The book is suitable for courses in law schools, graduate programs, Jewish studies, antisemitism studies, and related interdisciplinary fields. Selected chapters may also supplement courses in constitutional law, civil rights law, First Amendment law, cyberlaw, criminal law, comparative law, education law, law and religion, BS Holocaust studies.

Instructors interested in teaching Law and Antisemitism or related subjects are welcome to contact CSLA regarding syllabi, teaching materials, lectures, workshops, and related academic programming.

The book is published by Carolina Academic Press and is available through the publisher and on Amazon.