James Loeffler, Johns Hopkins University Searching for Raphael Lemkin: On the Study of Jewish Universalism How does the particular produce the universal? In this seminar, I discuss how Jewish Studies engages this question by drawing on research on Raphael Lemkin’s …

James Loeffler, “The Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law” Register for Zoom meeting. Can law stem hate speech without violating the First Amendment? In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie, Illinois filed a class …