Steven Freeman has had a distinguished career at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) spanning more than four decades. Joining ADL in 1985 as an assistant director in the Legal Affairs Department, Freeman has since held several key positions, including Director of Legal Affairs, leading a national team of area counsels, and Vice President of Civil Rights. Currently serving as ADL's Senior Counsel and Director of Legacy, he oversees the staff responsible for the organization's Library and Archives, which contain over a century of historical materials. Freeman's legal expertise has been instrumental in shaping ADL's advocacy efforts and coordinating the organization's amicus activity, including ADL's Supreme Court brief in the important Moody v NetChoice case. His work on hate crime laws led to a keynote address at the 2nd Annual Law vs. Antisemitism Conference, which was later published in the Lewis & Clark Law Review. He is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School.
Freeman contributed Online Hate Speech.
Joan S. Friedman is Lincoln Professor of Religion and Professor of History Emerita at the College of Wooster. She was ordained a rabbi at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1980 and chairs the CCAR Responsa Committee. She is the author of Guidance, Not Governance": Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa (Hebrew Union College Press 2013), a 2013 National Jewish Book Award Finalist.
Professor Friedman contributed Jewish Status in Reform Judaism.
Kenneth Grad is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, where his teaching and research focusses on criminal law, evidence, and legal history. He earned his JD from Osgoode Hall Law School and his LLM from Harvard Law School. He is currently pursuing his PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School, with emphasis on the efficacy of the criminal sanction and other regulatory measures as tools for combating hate and racist speech. He is the author of several scholarly papers on topics including criminal law, human rights, antisemitism, and freedom of expression.
Professor Grad contributed Willful Promotion of Hatred.
Hans-Christian Jasch, Dr. iur. is a lawyer and legal historian by training. He holds a doctoral degree in legal history from the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2014 to 2020 he served as the executive director of the Memorial and Educational Site House of the Wannsee Conference following the publication of his critically acclaimed book on the Nazi-state-secretary Wilhelm Stuckart, who represented the Ministry of interior at the Wannsee Conference, published in 2012 (in German). Parallel to his academic research on law and public administration in Nazi-Germany, Dr. Jasch worked as a lawyer in the public administration for the German Federal Ministry of Interior in the field of countering right-wing extremist hate crime and terrorism (2012-2014) and as a seconded national expert on preventing violent radicalisation for the counter-terrorism unit of the European Commission in DG Home Affairs from 2007 to 2011. In 2016-17 he co-authored books on the Participants of the Wannsee-Conference, the Nuremberg Laws, Public administration and the Holocaust, a book on how the German Justice system dealt with Holocaust crimes after 1945, a book on amateur war-photography during the German attack on Poland and in 2019 an exhibition and a catalogue called: “Crimes Uncovered”. The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers. He directed the curation of the new permanent exhibition in Wannsee, opened in 2020. Since 2023 he serves as the General Secretary of the German Section of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences in the Federal Ministry of Interior.
Dr. Jasch contributed Jews as Sub-Human.
Fr. John Paul Kimes was ordained a Maronite Catholic priest in 2000 and completed his doctorate in canon law in 2006 at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. From 2009-2019 he served as an official of the Supreme Apostolic Tribunal of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which adjudicates the most serious crimes in the Catholic Church. He has lectured internationally and written extensively on various topics of law in the Catholic Church, primarily in criminal law. Since 2020, he is an Associate Professor of the Practice at Notre Dame Law School, where he teaches courses on specific areas of law in the Catholic Church and the interaction between canon law and civil law in Western history. He is an advisor to more than 50 dioceses and religious orders world-wide. He serves as the Raymond of Peñafort Fellow of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, a Fellow of the Lindsay and Matt Maroun Religious Liberty Initiative, Consultant of the Canon Law Centre of the Thomas More Law School of Australian Catholic University and a Board Member of the Institute for Families and Technology.
Professor Kimes contributed Christianity Is Antithetical to Antisemitism.
Lesley Klaff s a Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University, an Affiliate Professor of Law at the University of Haifa in Israel, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. She is also a research fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) and is an Academic Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Holocaust Research and Education (IHRE) in Minnesota and of the Louis D Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law in Washington, D.C. She has published on a variety of topics relating to contemporary antisemitism, including Holocaust inversion, campus antisemitism, antisemitism in British politics, the IHRA definition, the intersection of antisemitism and misogyny, antisemitism and the law, and the legal construction of Jewish identity.
Dr. Klaff contributed Jews as Ethnic and Are Halakhically-based Admissions Policies a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination?
Albert Lindemann is Professor of History at the University of California Santa Barbara, Emeritus. He is the author or co-editor of seven books: The ‘Red Years’: European Socialism versus Bolshevism, 1919-1921 (University of California Press, 1974), History of European Socialism (Yale University Press, 1983), The Jew Accused, Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Esau’s Tears, Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Anti-Semitism before the Holocaust (Pearson Education Press, 2000), Antisemitism: A History (co-editor, Oxford University Press, 2010), and A History of Modern Europe from 1815 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2013).
Professor Lindemann contributed Antisemitism Is Inimical to Democracy.
Paula Rhein-Fischer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection of University of Cologne (Germany). She is Principal Investigator of the German, Lithuanian and Portuguese research consortium ‘Mnemonic Reality’ and Postdoctoral fellow of the Danish, Dutch, German and Polish research consortium ‘Memocracy, both funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. She holds both German state exams in law as well as a Maîtrise en Droit from Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. Dr. Rhein-Fischer completed her PhD at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne with a dissertation on the prohibition to use force and factual mistakes (Nomos 2020). She is a member of the Young College of the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science and the Arts. Her current research focusses on law and time, memory laws, human rights and constitutional law.
Dr. Rhein-Fischer contributed Glorification of the Nazi Regime.
Jack Olsburgh is a graduate of City, University of London Law School, where he achieved a Distinction in the Graduate Diploma in Law and was a Lincoln’s Inn Lord Bowen GDL Scholar. He is a First-Class graduate in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) from Oriel College, the University of Oxford, where he ranked 4th in his cohort and topped three Finals papers and was awarded the John Hicks Foundation Prize for best performance in the Macroeconomics Finals Honour School. Mr. Olsburgh worked as an academic research assistant to Professor Anthony Julius, who represented Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt in Irving v. Lipstadt. He is training to become a barrister at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy in London, and is a recipient of Lincoln’s Inn’s ‘Lord Denning Scholarship’ for the bar course.
Olsburgh contributed Defamation.
M.M. Silver is Professor of Jewish History and Modern History at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College. His book and articles in Hebrew and English include Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America: A Biography (Syracuse University Press, 2013), which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, and Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics (University of Alabama Press, 2020). He lives in Galilee, Israel.
Professor Silver contributed Louis Brandeis and Louis Marshall v. Anti-Zionists and The Legal Battles of Louis Marshall: Marshall v. Ford (1920-1927).
Daniel Sinclair is a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Law, Religion and Lawyer's Work, Fordham University Law School, New York and annual Visiting Professor of Law at the Law School. He is also Adjunct Professor of Comparative Public Health Law at Tel-Aviv University, Israel and Adjunct Professor of Law and Religion at the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University Law School, Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Sinclair is Emeritus Professor of Jewish Law and Comparative Biomedical Law at the Haim Striks Faculty of Law, College of Management Academic Studies in Israel. He has published widely in the fields of comparative and Jewish biomedical law, Jewish law, the influence of Jewish law on the legal system of the State of Israel, the relationship between Halakhah and ethics, the jurisprudence of Jewish law and Jewish identity. In addition to over seventy scholarly articles, Prof. Sinclair has published three books including Tradition and the Biological Revolution (Edinburgh University Press 1989) Law, Judicial Policy and Jewish Identity in the State of Israel (SUNY Binghamton 2000), and Jewish Biomedical Law: Legal and Extra-Legal Dimensions (Oxford University Press in 2003). An ordained rabbi, he has served as the rabbi of two congregation in the UK.
Dr. Sinclair contributed The Definition of “Jew” Under the Law of Return.
Gretchen Starr-LeBeau is Jeanne and George Todd Professor of Religious Studies at Principia College. Her first book, In the Shadow of the Virgin: Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain (Princeton University Press, 2003) was the finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in history. Her most recent book is Seven Myths about the Spanish Inquisition (Hackett, 2023). She also co-edited Judging Faith, Punishing Sin: Inquisitions and Consistories in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2017) with a Spanish translation from Catedra Press in 2020. Her research focuses on the Spanish Inquisition, particularly investigations of Jewish converts to Christianity. She has received funding for her work from the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Spanish Ministry for Education, Culture, and Sport.
Professor Starr-LeBeau contributed Jews as Heretical.
Victoria Saker Woeste is a legal historian whose interests span several major fields, from political economy to constitutional law, religion, and civil rights. Her degrees are from the University of Virginia and the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of The Farmer’s Benevolent Trust: Law and Cooperation in Industrial America (North Carolina, 1998), and Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech (Stanford, 2012); she is also the co-editor of Jews and the Law (Quid Pro Books, 2014). Henry Ford’s War is currently in development for film and television under option to Leviathan Productions. Professor Woeste has taught at Amherst College, Northwestern University, Indiana University McKinney School of Law, and Cairo University Egypt. For twenty-five years, she was a member of the research faculty at the American Bar Foundation before retiring in 2019.
Professor Woeste contributed Sapiro v. Ford.
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