Lawrence Douglas

Douglas received his A.B. from Brown University in 1982, his A.M. from Columbia University in 1986, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989.

Douglas is both a fiction and nonfiction author. 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.[2] Douglas is also a regular reviewer of books on legal topics for the Times Literary Supplement[3] and a regular contributor to The Guardian.[4]

Douglas is the recipient of 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.[5] He has served as a visiting professor of law at the University of London and at Humboldt Universität, Berlin.

He currently lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts.[6]

The Catastrophist was named a best book of 2006 by Kirkus Reviews and received the 2006 Silver Prize in General Fiction at the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

The Vices was named a best book of 2011 by New York Magazine and the New Statesman, and it was a finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award.

The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial was named a New York Times Editors' Choice for 2016.[7]

• Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020. Twelve Books. 2020. ISBN 978-1-5387-5187-9.
• The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial. Princeton University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-4008-7315-9.
• The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust. Yale University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-300-10984-9.
• Lawrence Douglas; Alexander George (2007). Sense and Nonsensibility: Lampoons of Learning and Literature. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-8482-7.

Editor

• Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha, eds. (2013). Law and War. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781625343925.
• Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha, eds. (2014). Law and the Utopian Imagination. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804790819.
• Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha, eds. (2019). Criminals and Enemies. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9781625343925.

Novels

• The Vices. Other Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-59051-416-0.
• The Catastrophist. Other Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-5905-1219-7.

• Judging the Courts: Wikinews interviews Prof. Lawrence Douglas.
• Faculty site at Amherst College.
• Lawrence Douglas in "The Accountant of Auschwitz."
• Lawrence Douglas's Op-Eds in The Guardian.