Faculty Collaborator Profile

James Loeffler

Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History

About

Loeffler teaches courses in Jewish and European history, Russian and East European history, international legal history, and the history of human rights. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow in International Law and Dean’s Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. His publications include Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 2018) and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press, 2010), and the forthcoming edited volume, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyering and International Law in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press).

Works

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How the Law Treats Hate: Antisemitism and Anti-Discrimination Reconsidered

How the Law Treats Hate: Antisemitism and Anti-Discrimination Reconsidered

A conference that explores pressing questions about antisemitism's relationship to other forms of discrimination and the law's ability to stop hatred.

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How Do We Define Anti-Jewish Discrimination? The Puzzle of Antisemitism

How Do We Define Anti-Jewish Discrimination? The Puzzle of Antisemitism

David Luban and Nomi Stolzenberg offer critical perspectives drawing on American constitutional and international law.

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Can We Move Beyond Race and Religion? Jewish Identity & American Civil Rights Law

Can We Move Beyond Race and Religion? Jewish Identity & American Civil Rights Law

Scholars reflect on where Jews have and have not historically fit into categories of American civil rights protection, and where they might fit in today.