Coming in Summer 2026:

Happening today - a global gathering to discuss the legacy of legal titan Alexander Pekelis (1902-1946). Centro Primo Levi hosts me, Natalia Indrimi, @yosefmalka.bsky.social Mauro Grondona, Ilaria Pavan and Umberto Gentiloni. RSVP for zoom -- details in link primolevicenter.org/events/minor...

Next week at Amherst College: www.amherst.edu/news/events/...

Coming this Tuesday, a symposium on Louis Brandeis, Jewish liberalism, and Zionism.

pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...

Livestream on Zoom via harvard.zoom.us/j/96207758290

Talks by Shaul Magid, Amalia Kessler, William Forbath, Laura Weinrib, Noah Feldman and yours truly

Full program details and zoom link now available for the Louis Brandeis symposium at Harvard Law School in a few weeks. pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...

Charlottesville shattered America's illusions about hate. Repair begins with grasping how it turbocharged antisemitism and turned the very act of opposing hate into political warfare.

I'll be previewing my forthcoming book at the Univ. of Florida Jewish Studies Program on 9/4.

bit.ly/UFLoeffler

Coming up next month at Harvard Law School - “The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism” Details in the link, and zoom option to follow pjil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-je...

#OpenAccess from @nationalitiesp.bsky.social -

The Right to Banality: Interwar Jewish Global Thought between Eastern Europe and the Middle East - cup.org/4fnkMVM

- @jloeffler.bsky.social

#FirstView

If you are looking to read something on the history of Zionism that moves beyond the settler colonialism debate & shows how the pre-1948 conflict in Palestine is linked to pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe -- & the role of int'l law in this story -- here's a new piece by yours truly. cup.org/4lQfUL7

Volume 4 of the Cambridge History of the Holocaust is out this month, with my essay, "In Search of Global Justice: Holocaust, Genocide, Law." Edited by Laura Jockusch and Devin Pendas. TOC and other information in the next comment.

Don’t think that the sky is a curtain, made so God won’t see!
That the clouds are so that no one can see your hands;
That the wind will muffle the wild cries;
That the earth will soak up the blood of the victims...
- I.L. Peretz (1905) , trans. J. Loeffler (2010)

jamesloeffler.com/dont-think-a...

A new-ish piece of mine on Judaism and human rights, Israel and Palestine, is out. Come for the critique of easy religious slogans, stay for the reflections on what a future Jewish ethics might look like. creor-ejournal.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Last year I wrote a short piece about antisemitism and free speech, a spin-off from the book I am now completing (due out May '26). It just won the Rockower prize for excellence in writing about antisemitism. Happy to share once again here. www.hartman.org.il/what-we-have...