andrew mark bennett
lawyer-scholar jew. schnorrer for democracy. married to @kifermilk. pioneers on the golan heights.
working toward a democracy of the common good @ Shaharit
playing with Jewish ideology and visual design @ ZVDL
thinking about Jewishness, Zionism, antisemitism, art & design, political-legal theory, sovereignty, citizenship, armed conflict, agriculture
tweeting exasperatedly as @acandidworld
previously worked for IDRA/ASIF, Freie Universität Berlin, Maryland Office of the Attorney General, Tel Aviv University, Center for Health and Homeland Security, Enterprise Homes, Montgomery County (MD) Department of Housing & Community Affairs
COMMENTARY
The Heroes in Halle, Tablet Magazine (Oct 17, 2019)
For a Century, White Supremacists Have Smeared the ADL. Now the Left Has Picked Up the Habit., The Forward (Jul. 2, 2018)
When Israel Shoots Unarmed Protestors, The Terrorists Win, The Forward (Apr. 5, 2018)
What Americans – And Israelis – Don’t Understand About the IDF, The Forward (Mar. 23, 2018)
JVP’s Anti-Semitic Obsession With Jewish Power, The Forward (Jan. 9, 2018)
On The Anniversary Of Kristallnacht, Jewish Life In Berlin Is Flourishing, The Forward (Nov. 9, 2017)
Why Stripping Non-Jews Of Their Israeli Citizenship Threatens Zionism, The Forward (Sept. 14, 2017)
Fourth Circuit Rules Sex Trafficking Is Not a Crime of Violence, The Daily Beast (Sept. 1, 2015)
SCHOLARSHIP
On Wearing the Kippa in Public – and in Public Service
questioning Germany’s paper-thin solidarity with Jews
Verfassungsblog (May 28, 2019)
These and Those – But Definitely not Those!
on demarcating the boundary of the nomos
The Lehrhaus (June 19, 2017)
Trump v. National Security Facts
on the potentially debilitating judicial consequences of Trump’s bullshit
Lawfare (Jan. 19, 2017)
on enforcing minimum wage laws against employers of interns
11 Univ. of Md. Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class 293 (2011)
EDUCATION
JD, University of Maryland School of Law
AB (Economics), Vassar College
BAR MEMBERSHIP
Maryland
District of Columbia