Anthony Robert Julius (born 16 July 1956) is a British

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known for being

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' divorce lawyer and for representing

Deborah Lipstadt Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian, best known as author of the books ''Denying the Holocaust'' (1993), ''History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier'' (2005), ''The Eichmann Trial'' (2011), and ' ...

. He is a partner at the law firm

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. He holds the chair in Law and Arts in the Faculty of Laws at University College London. He is also chairman of the economics consultancy, Oxera.

Life

The son of a

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menswear retailer who died young from a

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, Julius was educated at the

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. He studied

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, graduating in 1977 with a

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; in the mid-1990s he completed a

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in English literature at

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under the novelist and academic

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. He joined the

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law firm

in 1979, becoming a partner in 1984. Currently, he is deputy chairman of the firm. /sup>

Activities

Julius is a commercial

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. He is a specialist in the fields of

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disputes, and

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. He has been a

since at least 2001, /sup> which allows him to act as a

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in so far as he can now appear in the High Court and the

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. He was selected by Diana, Princess of Wales, as her legal representative when she divorced

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, in 1996. He was vice-president of the

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, until it closed in 2012. He was one of the charity's founding trustees and its first chairman until 1999. He represented

, successfully defending her in ''

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'', with

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QC, against a

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suit brought against her by the

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. Lipstadt and her publishers were vindicated by the judge's ruling in April 2000. A feature film about the case, ''

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'', with Andrew Scott playing Julius, was released in 2016. Julius is legal advisor to the Foundation of Jewish Heritage. He has written a number of books on various topics, outlined below, including his PhD thesis, in which he charged

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with

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. He is writing his fifth book, on censorship of the arts in liberal democracies, which is due for release in 2020. Julius is an advisory editor at the current affairs journal ''

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''. /sup> He was a founding member of both Engage and the

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. From 2011 to 2014 he was chairman of the board of ''

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''. /sup> From 1996 to 1998 he was a part-time lecturer at the Law Faculty of

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. In 2017 he rejoined University College London as the inaugural chair in Law and the Arts. He was previously chairman of the

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and visiting professor at

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. He serves as trustee to

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, the founding centre of a worldwide writers' association. Julius is also chairman of the trustees of Phenomen Trust. Between 2007 and 2013, Julius played an active role in the campaign against the academic boycott of Israeli universities. In a ''

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'' article co-authored with historian

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, Julius wrote "This is not the first boycott call directed at Jews. On 1 April 1933, a week after he came to power, Hitler ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores." Julius's other activities in this context included representing Ronnie Fraser in an action against the

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(UCU). Fraser, who was a member of the union, complained that it had created an "intimidating", "hostile", "humiliating", and "offensive" environment for Jews. After a 20-day hearing the tribunal rejected his claim, harshly rebuking Julius for "misusing the legal process". Scorn is also invoked for Julius's decision to pursue certain points, with complaints variously dismissed as "palpably groundless", "obviously hopeless" and "devoid of any merit". The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) criticized the rejection.

Private life

He married Judith Bernie in 1979; the couple had four children, but later divorced. In 1999, he married

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and had one child with her. Rabinovitch died in 2007 from breast cancer. In 2009, he married Katarina Lester, and is step-father to her two children. They had a son together in 2011. 1/sup>

Selected publications

* ''T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form'' (1st edition

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1995, 2nd edition

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2003), based on his PhD thesis * "Art Crimes", in ''Law and Literature'' (

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1999) and in ''Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture'' (Ridinghouse 2003). * "Love Poetry and the Art of Advocacy" in ''Critical Quarterly'' (

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, 2003) * "Dickens the lawbreaker" in ''Critical Quarterly'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2003) * ''Idolising Pictures'' (Thames & Hudson 2000). * ''Transgressions: The Offences of Art'' (Thames & Hudson 2002). * ''

Trials of the Diaspora ''Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England'' is a 2010 book by British lawyer Anthony Julius. The book details the role played by antisemitism in the history of the United Kingdom. The book argues that British anti-Zionism de ...

: A History of Anti-Semitism in England'' (Oxford University Press 2010; paperback edition, with fresh material, 2012). .

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