2. Juni 2026

We invite you to a lecture by Zalman Rothschild (Assistant Professor of Law and Horn Family Distinguished Research Scholar in Law and Religion at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law).

What is Antisemitism?: A Legal Analysis
While the question 'what is antisemitism?' has been debated extensively in many circles, it has rarely been asked as a legal question. This talk explores the possibility and promise of bringing legal tools, and anti-discrimination law in particular, to bear on this complex and timely question.

About the speaker: Zalman Rothschild is Assistant Professor of Law and Horn Family Distinguished Research Scholar in Law and Religion at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from New York University. Previously, he was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, a law clerk to Judge Jane Roth on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss. His scholarship has appeared in Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and Yale Law Review Forum, and has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books. His popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. He has also testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce on religion and public schools. In 2023 and 2026, the Law and Religion Section of the Association of American Law Schools awarded Rothschild the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship. He is the recipient of the “On the Rise—Top 40 Young Lawyer” award from the American Bar Association.

Time: Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 5:00 PM (17:00)

Location: AS-Saal, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (Main Building University, 20146 Hamburg)