Lawrence R. Douglas

Lawrence R. Douglas is a Professor at Amherst College. He is the author of seven books, including The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust (Yale, 2001) and The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial (Princeton, 2016), and has published two acclaimed novels. His work spans law, history, and interdisciplinary studies, with a focus on Holocaust trials, legal interpretation, and genocide accountability.

• J.D., Yale Law School, 1989
• M.A., Columbia University, 1986
• A.B., Brown University, 1982
• A.M. (honorary), Amherst College, 2005

Douglas has received major fellowships from institutions such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Carnegie Foundation. He has lectured internationally and served as visiting professor at the University of London and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. His teaching emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, blending law, literature, and history.

• Scientific Awards:
• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship
• American Council of Learned Societies fellowship
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum fellowship
• Institute for International Education fellowship
• American Academy in Berlin fellowship
• Carnegie Foundation fellowship