Staff
Lesley Klaff
Senior lecturer, LLB (Hons), MA
Affiliate professor of law, Haifa University, Israel
Phone 0114 225 2393
Email l.d.klaff@shu.ac.uk
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Profile
I am a senior lecturer in law at Sheffield Hallam University, where I serve as module leader on the 'English legal system and skills' and 'Legal and social theory' modules. I also serve as a faith advisor on the University's multi-faith chaplaincy.
I was previously a visiting associate law professor at: Cleveland State University (Ohio, USA), the University of Akron (Ohio, USA), the University of Miami (Florida, USA) and St. Thomas University (Florida, USA). I was also a member of the law faculty at the University of Westminster, London.
I currently act as a reviewer for English Legal System and Skills texts and Jurisprudence texts for Oxford University Press and Pearson Longman publishers.
I am the associate editor and book review editor of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism (JSA). I am on the Advisory Board of The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA). I am a member of United Kingdom Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). I am a member of the UK branch of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ). I am a member of the SPME Legal Task Force, and am on the Advisory Board of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Law.
Research interest
- anti-Semitism
Recent publications
R v Saibene and Others: Vigilante Justice against Israel and the Rule of Law, Journal of the Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (forthcoming.)
Antisemitism on Campus: A New Look at Legal Interventions, Journal for the Study of Antisemitism Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2011) 303
Anti-Semitism vs Anti-Zionism. Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2011) 434
Demoralization and Contemporary English Anti-Semitism, Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2011) 459
Anti-Zionist Expression on the UK Campus: Free Speech or Hate Speech? Jewish Political Studies Review (22) 3–4 (Fall 2010)
'The Background Noise', A review of Anthony Julius, Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford University Press 2010) in Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, Volume 2, Issue no. 1, (Fall 2010) 205
Conference papers
'Jodie and Mary: Why The Court of Appeal Was Wrong', paper delivered to the South Yorkshire Medico-Legal Society, 27 November, 2004; to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, 9 February 2003; to the 'Group 62' Public Interest Society, Sheffield, 16 June 2002; at the Sheffield Hallam University Human Rights Conference, 28 January 2002.
'Introducing Problem-Based Learning into a Traditional First Year Undergraduate Module', paper delivered at Sheffield Hallam University's 10th Learning Teaching and Assessment (LTA) Conference, 6 May 2005
'Universities, Anti-Semitism, and Reasonable Perceptions of Hostility', paper delivered at the European Sociological Association Conference 2009, Lisbon, 2–5 September, 2009
'Anti-Zionist Expression on the UK Campus: Free Speech or Hate Speech?' paper delivered to law staff, Staff Research Seminar, 18 November, 2009
'Modern Anti-Semitism in Academia', paper delivered at the Colloquium on Aspects of Antisemitism in the UK, International Study Group for Education and Research on Antisemitism, University of London, 5 December, 2009
'Practical application of the Equality Act 2010: lessons for the university', paper delivered (with Dr. Steve Riley, Richard Whittle and Peter Griffiths) to the Development and Society Faculty Conference, 13 May, 2010
'Jews / Color / Race', International Workshop participant at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, 6–10 June, 2010
'Antisemitism vs Anti-Zionism' paper and 'International Relations' paper delivered at the, Inaugural Conference of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, New York, 2–3 October, 2010
'R v Saibene and Others: A Case Analysis', paper delivered to law staff, Staff Research Seminar, 15 December 2010
'R v Saibene and Others: Vigilante Justice Against Israel and the Rule of Law' paper delivered at the Colloquium on Contemporary Antisemitism and Perceptions of the Holocaust, International Study Group on Education and Research on Antisemitism, London, 13 March, 2011
R v Saibene and others: Antisemitic Discourse in the Criminal Justice System', paper delivered to the Development and Society Faculty Conference, 20 June, 2011
Others areas of experience and achievement
Winston Pickett, 'Law Exists to Stop the Bigots', The Jewish Chronicle, 28 January, 2011 (newspaper article discusses my academic research on campus anti-Semitism).
I am currently organising a Symposium entitled 'Political Perspectives on Contemporary Antisemitism in the UK' for the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism (JSA), in conjunction with the Wiener Library, London - to be held in April 2012
