Research Summary
Areas of Expertise: Complicity, Bystander, Extremism, Counterterrorism, Criminal Law, International Law, National Security, Religion, Ecosystem of Pedophilia, Enablers in Sexual Assault, Morality in Armed Conflict, Israeli politics
Education
- Ph.D, Faculty of Law, Leiden University
- J.D., Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- A.B., Honors in History, Kenyon College
Biography
Amos N. Guiora is Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. He is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and a Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at the International Center for Conflict Resolution, Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. Professor Guiora is on the Board of the Lauren McClusky Foundation.
Professor Guiora is the recipient of the University of Utah’s Distinguished Faculty Service award.
For the past 10 years Guiora has been researching-writing-lecturing on the question of bystanders (originally in the Holocaust) resulting in his books, The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust and Armies of Enablers:Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults. Professor Guiora Directs the SJ Quinney College of Law Bystander Initiative
Professor Guiora has an A.B. in history from Kenyon College, a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and a Ph.D. from Leiden University.