James Friedman

Who is James Friedman?

James Friedman is a Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law.

Friedman, a graduate of Brown University and The University of Chicago School of Law, has served as a visiting Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point; and the Faculty of Law, University College, Galway Ireland. He was a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition he was a post-doctoral fellow and research associate on energy and environmental issues at The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA., for three years.

Friedman's areas of specialty include: American Constitutional Law, law and philosophy, and legal and ethical issues posed by counterterrorism. Friedman has studied British, Irish, Israeli, as well as American responses to terrorist attacks.

In 1988 Trinity College Dublin published Friedman's criticism of the Supreme Court of Ireland for prohibiting a woman's clinic from providing information concerning abortion in England. Friedman argued that the judicial injunction in question violated free speech. See "On the Dangers of Moral Certainty and Sacred Trusts," Dublin University Law Journal.

Friedman published 'Arendt in Jerusalem, Jackson at Nuremberg: Presuppositions of the Nazi War Crimes Trials," in The Israel Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, Autumn 1994.