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Anthony Robert Julius(born 16 July 1956) is a Britishsolicitor advocateknown for beingDiana, Princess of Wales' divorce lawyer[1]and for representingDeborah Lipstadt.[2]He is the deputy chairman at the law firmMishcon de Reya[1]and honorary solicitor to Foundation for Jewish Heritage. He is a trustee for the Institute of Jewish Studies.

He holds the chair in Law and Arts in the Faculty of Laws at University College London[3]and teaches courses on Shakespeare, Kant, and William Empson. He is also a visiting professor to theHaifa university.[4]

Life

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The son of aLondonmenswear retailer who died young from abrain tumour,Julius was educated at theCity of London School.He studiedEnglish literatureatJesus College, Cambridge,graduating in 1977 with afirst class degree;in the mid-1990s he completed aPhDin English literature atUniversity College Londonunder the novelist and academicDan Jacobson.He joined theBloomsburylaw firmMishcon de Reyain 1979, becoming a partner in 1984. Currently, he is deputy chairman of the firm.[5]

Activities

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Julius is a commerciallitigator.He is a specialist in the fields ofdefamation,international tradedisputes, andmedia law.He has been asolicitor advocatesince at least 2001,[6]which allows him to act as abarristerin so far as he can now appear in theHigh Courtand theCourt of Appeal.[citation needed]

He was selected by Diana, Princess of Wales, as her legal representative when she divorcedCharles, Prince of Wales,in 1996. He was vice-president of theDiana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund,until it closed in 2012. He was one of the charity's founding trustees and its first chairman until 1999.[7]

He representedDeborah Lipstadt,successfully defending her inIrving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt,withRichard RamptonQC,against alibelsuit brought against her by theHolocaust denierDavid Irving.Lipstadt and her publishers were vindicated by the judge's ruling in April 2000.[8]A feature film about the case,Denial,withAndrew Scottplaying Julius, was released in 2016.[9]

Julius is legal advisor to the Foundation of Jewish Heritage.[10]

Julius is an advisory editor at the current affairs journalFathom.[11]He was a founding member of both Engage and theEuston Manifesto.From 2011 to 2014 he was chairman of the board ofThe Jewish Chronicle.[12]

From 1996 to 1998 he was a part-time lecturer at the Law Faculty ofUniversity College London.In 2017 he rejoined University College London as the inaugural chair in Law and the Arts.[3]He was previously chairman of theLondon Consortiumand visiting professor atBirkbeck, University of London.

He serves as trustee toEnglish PEN,the founding centre of a worldwide writers' association.[13]Julius is also chairman of the trustees of Phenomen Trust.

Between 2007 and 2013, Julius played an active role in the campaign against theacademic boycott of Israeli universities.In aGuardianarticle co-authored with historianSimon Schama,Julius wrote "This is not the first boycott call directed at Jews. On 1 April 1933, a week after he came to power, Hitler ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores."[14]

Julius's other activities in this context included representing Ronnie Fraser in an action against theUniversity and College Union(UCU). Fraser, who was a member of the union, complained that it had created an "intimidating", "hostile", "humiliating", and "offensive" environment for Jews.[15]After a 20-day hearing the tribunal rejected his claim, harshly rebuking Julius for "misusing the legal process". Scorn is also invoked for Julius's decision to pursue certain points, with complaints variously dismissed as "palpably groundless", "obviously hopeless" and "devoid of any merit".[16][1]The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America(CAMERA),which critics have described as an ‘extreme Israel advocacy group’,[17]criticized the rejection.[18][19]

Private life

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He married Judith Bernie in 1979; the couple had four children, but later divorced. In 1999, he marriedDina Rabinovitchand had one child with her. Rabinovitch died in 2007 from breast cancer. In 2009, he married Katarina Lester, and is step-father to her two children. They had a son together in 2011.[20]

Selected publications

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  • T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form(1st editionCambridge University Press1995, 2nd editionThames & Hudson2003), based on his PhD thesis
  • Idolising Pictures(Thames & Hudson 2000).
  • Transgressions: The Offences of Art(Thames & Hudson 2002).
  • "Dickens the lawbreaker" inCritical Quarterly(John Wiley & Sons, 2003)
  • "Love Poetry and the Art of Advocacy" inCritical Quarterly(John Wiley & Sons,2003)
  • "Art Crimes", inLaw and Literature(Oxford University Press1999) and inDear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture(Ridinghouse 2003).
  • Trials of the Diaspora:A History of Anti-Semitism in England(Oxford University Press 2010; paperback edition, with fresh material, 2012).ISBN978-0-19-929705-4.
  • Bentham and the Arts– co-editor, and contributor ( "More Bentham, Less Mill" )
  • Whither liberal Zionism?
  • The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century: From the Academic Boycott Campaign into the MainstreamContributor - (Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism)
  • "Psychoanalysis and Free Speech,"Ernest Jones Memorial Lecture, 2023.British Psychoanalytic Society.
  • "Abraham: The First Jew" – a volume in the Yale Jewish Lives Series, to be published in Winter 2024; (3) Shameless Authors – a study of censorship of the arts - to be published by OUP in 2026.

Articles

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  1. Dedications
  2. Wilful ignorance
  3. S Times

References

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  1. ^abcGrove 2013.
  2. ^"Anthony Julius Profile".The Guardian.Retrieved27 May2021.
  3. ^ab"Professor Anthony Julius joins UCL as First Chair in Laws and the Arts".University College London.Retrieved16 March2020.
  4. ^"Dr. Anthony Julius – University of Haifa Board of Governors".Retrieved4 March2024.
  5. ^http:// mishcon /people/anthony_julius[verification needed]
  6. ^http:// bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2001/1447.html[verification needed]
  7. ^"Diana lawyer resigns from fund".BBC.21 March 1999.Retrieved27 May2021.
  8. ^Libson, James; Julias, Anthony (18 April 2000)."Losing was unthinkable. The rest is history".The Independent.London:Independent News and Media Limited.Archivedfrom the original on 7 May 2022.Retrieved17 June2009.
  9. ^Freeman, Hadley(31 January 2017)."Denial lawyer Anthony Julius on antisemitism and the age of extremes".The Guardian.Retrieved27 May2021.
  10. ^"Foundation for Jewish Heritage".foundationforjewishheritage.Archived fromthe originalon 3 March 2018.Retrieved2 March2018.
  11. ^Fathom:For a deeper understanding of Israel and the region[verification needed]
  12. ^Anthony Julius to chair JC board,The Jewish Chronicle,20 January 2011[verification needed]
  13. ^"Board of Trustees – English PEN".English PEN.Archived fromthe originalon 28 February 2018.Retrieved2 March2018.
  14. ^Schama, Simon (22 December 2006)."John Berger is wrong".The Guardian.Retrieved3 November2020.
  15. ^Levick 2013:Fraser had charged the UCU with fostering an atmosphere of antisemitism which created an ‘intimidating’, ‘hostile’, ‘humiliating’, and ‘offensive’ work environment’ for Jews
  16. ^Courts and Tribunals Judiciary2013.
  17. ^Ian Lustick,'The Trump Administration is Using Accusations of Anti-Semitism to Silence Critics,'The Forward29 November 2019.
  18. ^Levick 2013.
  19. ^Hirsh, David(2017).Contemporary Left Antisemitism.London; New York: Routledge.ISBN9781138235311.
  20. ^Rachel Cooke(7 February 2010)."Anthony Julius on Diana, Dina and the new antisemitism".The Observer.Archivedfrom the original on 20 April 2010.Retrieved9 May2010.[verification needed]

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