Instructor: Amos N. Guiora,

Amos N. Guiora is Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. He is actively involved in bystander legislation efforts in Utah and other states around the country.

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. He has published extensively both in the United States and Europe on issues related to national security, limits of interrogation, religion and terrorism, the limits of power, multiculturalism, and human rights.

His books include Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults (2020); Five Words That Changed America: Miranda v. Arizona and the Right to Remain Silent (2020); Populist and Islamist Challenges for International Law (2019); The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust (2017); Earl Warren, Ernesto Miranda and Terrorism (2018); Tolerating Intolerance: The Price of Protecting Extremism (2014); and Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security (2009).

Professor Guiora is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law (CRSHL), 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.

Session Description: 

Professor Guiora’s presentation is based on his interviews with survivors of sexual assault from USA Gymnastics, Michigan State University, Ohio State University, and the Catholic Church, plus thousands of pages of Grand Jury indictments, civil lawsuits, criminal prosecutions, special reports, and media accounts. As in his book Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults, he focuses not on what the sexual predators did to them, but on how the institutions and individuals allowed it to happen.

He will discuss the criminalization of bystanders and enablers, which reflects recognition that failure to aggressively prosecute those who acted by not acting ensures perpetrators will continue to act with impunity and immunity. That is the direct consequence of failing to act on behalf of survivors. In advocating criminalization of bystanders-enablers, the underlying premise is that they owe a duty to the person in peril. Efforts to protect require penalizing all those who directly and indirectly contributed to that harm. It is for that reason that criminalizing the bystander-enabler is warranted.

This webinar is open to Virginia prosecutors, law enforcement and victim witness advocates housed in a police department or Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ office

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