Lawrence Douglas

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

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.{{cite magazine |last1=Douglas |first1=Lawrence |title=A Kangaroo in Obama's Court |magazine=Harper's |date=October 2013 |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2013/10/a-kangaroo-in-obamas-court/ |access-date=1 August 2019}} Douglas reviews books on legal topics for the Times Literary Supplement{{cite web |title=Lawrence Douglas |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/?s=lawrence+douglas |website=Times Literary Supplement |access-date=31 July 2019}} and is a contributing writer for The Guardian.{{cite web |last1=Douglas |first1=Lawrence |title=Contributor |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lawrence-douglas |website=The Guardian |access-date=31 July 2019}}

He has received fellowships{{Cite web |title=Douglas, Lawrence R. {{!}} Faculty & Staff {{!}} Amherst College |url=https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/lrdouglas |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=www.amherst.edu}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Ford |first1=Celeste |title=Announcing the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellows |url=https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/andrew-carnegie-fellows-program-recognizes-33-scholars-significant-work-social-sciences-and-humanities/ |access-date=31 July 2019}} In 2022, he was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany.{{cite web |last1=Jay |title=The 2021-22 Berlin Prize Fellows |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/announcing-the-2021-22-berlin-prize-fellows/ |website=AmericanAcademy.de |access-date=21 February 2024 |date=12 May 2021}}

Douglas has appeared in several documentaries, including The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018),{{cite web |title=Lawrence Douglas |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9702497/?ref_=nmfm_nmfm_nm |website=IMDB|access-date=21 February 2024 }} the TV mini-series The Devil Next Door (2019),{{cite web |title=The Devil Next Door |website=IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11165002/ |access-date=21 February 2024}} the National Geographic documentary Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2023),{{cite web |title=Nazis at Nuremberg |website=National Geographic Society |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/movies-and-specials/nazis-at-nuremberg-the-lost-testimony |access-date=21 February 2024}} and the BBC's The Devil's Confession: the Lost Eichmann Tapes (2023).{{cite web |title=The Devil's Confession. |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g8b0k5 |access-date=21 February 2024}}

His book The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial was a New York Times Editors' Choice book for 2016.{{cite news |date=3 March 2016 |title=Editors' Choice |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/books/review/editors-choice.html |access-date=31 July 2019}}

His 2020 book Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020 predicted many of Donald Trump's strategies for attempting to hold onto power.{{cite web |title=Will He Go? |url=https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48717773 |website=Goodreads.com |access-date=21 February 2024}}{{cite web |title=The Professor Who Nailed It |url=https://www.amherst.edu/news/news_releases/2020/12-2020/the-professor-who-nailed-it |website=Amherst.edu |access-date=21 February 2024}}

Douglas lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts.{{cite web |title=The Vices |url=https://www.amherst.edu/alumni/learn/amherstreads/pastfeatures/2011-features/thevices/bio |website=Amherst.edu |access-date=21 February 2024}}

Douglas has published two novels. The Catastrophist,{{cite web |title=The Catastrophist |url=https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/178802 |website=Goodreads |access-date=21 February 2024}} about a professor struggling with fatherhood, was listed on Kirkus Reviews' best books of 2006 and shared a Silver Prize in fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.{{cite web |title=Announcing 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results |url=https://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1157| access-date=20 February 2024}}

The Vices, about a troubled philosopher,{{cite web |title=The Vices |url=https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/10765811 |website=Goodreads |access-date=21 February 2024}} was listed as a best book of 2011 by New York Magazine{{cite web |title=The Years in Books |date=2 December 2011 |url=https://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2011/recommended-books/| access-date=20 February 2024}} and the New Statesman.{{cite web |title=New Statesman Best Books of 2011 |url=https://www.listchallenges.com/new-statesman-best-books-of-2011/list/3 |access-date=20 February 2024}}

• {{Cite book|title= Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QO8DwAAQBAJ|publisher=Twelve Books|year=2020|isbn=978-1-5387-5187-9}}
• {{cite book| title=The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LboBgAAQBAJ|date=2016|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-7315-9}}
• {{cite book| title=The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hiU2C0maeAMC|year=2005|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-10984-9}}
• {{cite book|author1=Lawrence Douglas|author2=Alexander George|title=Sense and Nonsensibility: Lampoons of Learning and Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hi1QWy5tfokC|date=2007|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4165-8482-7}}

;Editor

• {{cite book |editor1-last=Sarat |editor1-first=Austin |editor2-last=Douglas |editor2-first=Lawrence |editor3-last=Umphrey |editor3-first=Martha |title=Law and War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yo8wtgEACAAJ|date=2013 |publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9781625343925 }}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=Sarat |editor1-first=Austin |editor2-last=Douglas |editor2-first=Lawrence |editor3-last=Umphrey |editor3-first=Martha |title=Law and the Utopian Imagination |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dykBwQEACAAJ|date=2014 |publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9780804790819 }}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=Sarat |editor1-first=Austin |editor2-last=Douglas |editor2-first=Lawrence |editor3-last=Umphrey |editor3-first=Martha |title=Criminals and Enemies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yo8wtgEACAAJ |date=2019 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|isbn=9781625343925 }}

;Novels

• {{cite book| title=The Vices|url=https://archive.org/details/vicesnovel0000doug| url-access=registration|date=2011|publisher=Other Press|isbn=978-1-59051-416-0}}
• {{cite book| title=The Catastrophist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyJBadgU_VYC|date=2006|publisher=Other Press|isbn=978-1-5905-1219-7}}

{{reflist}}

• Judging the Courts: Wikinews interviews Prof. Lawrence Douglas.
• [https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/lrdouglas Faculty site] at Amherst College.
• [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9702497/ Lawrence Douglas in "The Accountant of Auschwitz."]
• [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lawrence-douglas Lawrence Douglas's Op-Eds in The Guardian.]

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