Lawrence Douglas
Encyclopedia
Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College
. He received his A.B. in 1982 from Brown University
, M.A. in 1986 from Columbia University
, and J.D. in 1989 from Yale Law School
. In 2005 he became honorary A.M. at Amherst College. He is also a board member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.
Professor Douglas is the author or editor of several books on legal history and theory, including The Memory of Judgment (ISBN 978-0-300-10984-9), which discusses five legal responses to the Holocaust, published in 2001. He is also the author of a novel, The Catastrophist (ISBN 978-0-15-603177-6), released in 2006.
With fellow Amherst professor Alexander George, Professor Douglas publishes humor pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education and other publications. Sense and Nonsensibility (ISBN 0-7432-6048-1), a book that pokes gentle fun at the worlds of literature and academia, appeared in 2004.
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
. He received his A.B. in 1982 from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, M.A. in 1986 from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, and J.D. in 1989 from Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
. In 2005 he became honorary A.M. at Amherst College. He is also a board member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.
Professor Douglas is the author or editor of several books on legal history and theory, including The Memory of Judgment (ISBN 978-0-300-10984-9), which discusses five legal responses to the Holocaust, published in 2001. He is also the author of a novel, The Catastrophist (ISBN 978-0-15-603177-6), released in 2006.
With fellow Amherst professor Alexander George, Professor Douglas publishes humor pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education and other publications. Sense and Nonsensibility (ISBN 0-7432-6048-1), a book that pokes gentle fun at the worlds of literature and academia, appeared in 2004.
External links
- Faculty site at Amherst College
- List of IHRDC board members
- Wikinews interview with Professor Douglas