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Lawrence R. Douglas (born October 18, 1959) is an American legal
scholar. He teaches in the department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social
Thought at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he holds the
James J. Grosfield Professorship. He is an author of journalism,
fiction, and nonfiction books.
Douglas received an A.B. from
Brown University in 1982, a A.M. from Columbia University in 1986, and a
J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989.
Much of Douglas's nonfiction
has focused on legal responses to state-sponsored atrocities. His two
novels have focused on the question of Jewish identity.
In 2013,
Douglas wrote about Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Nashiri for Harper's
Magazine. Douglas reviews books on legal topics for the Times Literary
Supplement and is a contributing writer for The Guardian.
He has
received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
American Council of Learned Societies, the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, the Institute for International Education, and the
Carnegie Corporation.[6] In 2022, he was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the
American Academy in Berlin, Germany.
Douglas has appeared in
several documentaries, including The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018),[8]
the TV mini-series The Devil Next Door (2019), the National Geographic
documentary Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2023), and the BBC's
The Devil's Confession: the Lost Eichmann Tapes (2023).
His book
The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes
Trial was a New York Times Editors' Choice book for 2016.]
His
2020 book Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020
predicted many of Donald Trump's strategies for attempting to hold onto
power.
Douglas lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts.
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