This will be a public discussion on Disagreeing About Anti-Zionism as AntiSemitism  with Brad R. Roth and Howard Lupovitch

BRAD R. ROTH

Professor Roth serves as Professor of Political Science and Law, teaching courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels in international law, human rights, political theory, and legal studies.  After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1987, he served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1987-88) and as a practicing litigator (1988-91), before earning a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in international and foreign law from Columbia Law School (1992) and a Ph.D. in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of California at Berkeley (1996).  He has taught at Wayne State since 1997, and in 2018, was elected to Wayne State’s Academy of Scholars. 

              Professor Roth’s scholarly work applies legal and political theory to problems in international and comparative public law.  He is the author of Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law (Oxford University Press, 1999) andSovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement (Oxford University Press, 2011), as well as roughly fifty journal articles, book chapters, and scholarly commentaries dealing with questions of sovereignty, constitutionalism, human rights, and democracy.   A recent article, “Implementing ‘Two Peoples, One Future’:  Conceptualizing Mutual Self-Determination in Israel-Palestine,” appeared in the Spring 2023 issue of the academic journal Europa Ethnica.

              In addition, Professor Roth has co-edited three scholarly volumes and one textbook on topics in international law.  He has lectured extensively abroad, and has taught or co-taught university courses in five foreign countries.  He served as one of three American Branch representatives on the International Law Association’s Committee on Recognition/Non-Recognition of States and Governments from 2010 to 2018, and presently serves on the ILA Committee on the Use of Military Force on Request.

HOWARD LUPOVITCH

Howard Lupovitch is Professor of History and Director of the Cohn-Haddow Center at Wayne State University.  He is a fourth-generation Detroiter and a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, where he earned a PhD in History.  He is the author, most recently, of _Transleithanian Paradise: A History of the Budapest Jewish Community_ and is currently writing a history of the Neolog Movement and a History of the Jews of Detroit since 1967.