Kenneth L. Marcus

Kenneth L. Marcus is the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Chair in Equality and Justice in America at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Formerly, he was staff director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. [ [http://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/2005/Kenneth%20Marcus%20is%20Director%20of%20U.S.%20Civil%20Rights%20Commission.html Bush Appoints Kenneth Marcus '91 as Director of U.S. Civil Rights Commission ] ]

Marcus was credited by the Wall Street Journal with having taken "an agency in disarray" that lacked "basic management controls," and turned it into an agency that "deserves a medal for good governance." [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS207414+07-Jan-2008+PRN20080107 Civil Rights Commission Director to Step Down | Reuters ] ]

He was also noted for instituting a policy under which the Department of Justice's Office of Civil Rights would considering civil rights complaints from groups, like Muslims, Jews and Sikhs, that combine religious and ethnic characteristics, who can now sue for discrimination under Title VI because of their ethnic (but not religious) traits. [ [http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/religious-rights2004.html Title VI and Title IX Religious Discrimination in Schools and Colleges ] ] [ [http://www.virginiacivilrightsattorneys.com/news.cfm/Article/95046/Gpo-Helps-US-Commission-On-Civil.html Virginia Civil Rights Attorneys.com : Gpo Helps U.S. Commission On Civil Rights To Stop Hate On College Campuses ] ] [ [http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2007/09/kenneth-l-marcuss-anti-zionism-as.html Mitchell Langbert's Blog: Kenneth L. Marcus's "Anti-Zionism as Racism: Campus Anti-Semitism and the Civil Rights Act of 1964" ] ]

Publications

The Second Mutation: Israel and Political Anti-Semitism, by Kenneth L. Marcus, inFocus SPRING 2008 • VOLUME II: NUMBER 1 [ [http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/article/114 The Second Mutation: Israel and Political Anti-Semitism - inFocus Quarterly Journal ] ]

"Anti-Zionism as Racism: Campus Anti-Semitism and the Civil Rights Act of 1964", February 2007 issue of the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal(pp. 837-891, published by the students of the William and Mary Law School)

“The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism on American College Campuses ,” Current Psychology, Vol. 26, Nos. 3 & 4, 2007

“The Most Important Right We Think We Have But Don't: Freedom from Religious Discrimination in Education.” Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 7, p. 171, 2006

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