Professor Katz's Upcoming Book Receives Glowing Reviews
03/26/2025
IU McKinney Professor Robert Katz is writing Antisemitism and the Law, the first casebook on the subject, to be published by Carolina Academic Press in July 2025. Professor Katz’s book received a glowing review in a blog post by Clifford Rieders on The Times of Israel’s website and several comments highly praising the book from the Center for the Study of Law and Antisemitism (CSLA).
The book will be a resource for understanding the legal history of antisemitism and legal strategies to combat it. It explores how legal systems have been wielded both to oppress Jews and to fight antisemitism, offering a global and historical perspective on the intersection of law and antisemitism.
“Much of the compendium is a historical evaluation which will help the reader fully appreciate that antisemitism and the law is not always about the law exclusively,” Rieders writes in the blog. “In fact, this book can easily be read by those who are neither lawyers nor law students.”
From the CLSA website:
“Antisemitism and the Law is more than a thoughtful and comprehensive casebook,” said Stephen Macedo, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. “With it, Professor Katz is building the foundation for a new field of study, identifying canonical texts and organizing questions. It is a call for sustained scholarly engagement with the legal dimensions of antisemitism.”
“Against a backdrop of increasing hostility towards Jews, this comprehensive and meticulously researched casebook could not come at a more valuable time, said Anthony Julius, professor and chair of Law and the Arts of the Faculty of Laws at University College London. Julius also is deputy chairman of Mishcon de Reya. “By chronicling and analysing landmark Jewish cases, including an incisive and enlightening treatment of Irving v. Lipstadt, this book provides indispensable insight into how Jews and their allies can best utilise the law, both as a sword and shield, to combat antisemitism.”
Professor Katz will teach a course on antisemitism and the law using the casebook at McKinney in fall 2025. He is a member of the ABA Presidential Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, a senior research fellow for the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Antisemitism Research, and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Antisemitism, a nonprofit organization he founded to promote research and education at the intersection of law and antisemitism.
