Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale Law School. Douglas is the author of works of both nonfiction and fiction. His nonfiction has focused on legal responses to state-sponsored atrocity. The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust examined the Nuremberg, Eichmann, Barbie and Zundel trials as examples of what Douglas calls ?didactic legality?: using criminal trials as tools of historical instruction and memory construction. His two novels have focused on the question of Jewish identity. The Catastrophist was named a best book of 2006 by Kirkus and received the 2006 Silver Prize in General Fiction at the Independent Publishers? Book Awards. The Vices was named a best book of 2011 by New York Magazine and the New Statesmen and was a finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award. 

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