Event Description

Professor James Loeffler, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of the UVA Jewish Studies Program, hosted acclaimed legal commentator Dahlia Lithwick and UVA legal scholar Professor Micah Schwartzman, Director of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy, in a conversation about the legacies of August 11-12, 2017, in the national landscape of American law and politics.

To watch the video recording, please click here. Go here for video with audio transcript and closed captioning.

To read Mary Wood's write-up about the event for UVA Law, please click here.

To read James Loeffler's commentary about the relationship between anti-Black racism and antisemitism for Newsweek, please click here.

Participants

James Loeffler

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James Loeffler is the Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of the Jewish Studies Program and Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia. His publications include The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 2018). He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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Dahlia Lithwick

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America (Penguin Press, 2022). She has received the American Constitution Society’s Progressive Champion Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis, and an Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary twice. In 2018 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She earned her B.A. in English at Yale University and her J.D. at Stanford University.

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Micah Schwartzman

Micah Schwartzman is the director of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy and the Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law. He co-edited The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2015) and is co-authoring a forthcoming casebook on Constitutional Law and Religion. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

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