Jeffrey Lax is a professor of law at the City University of New York (CUNY) and I has chaired the department of business at Kingsborough Community College (KCC) for the past 15 years. He is the co-founder and chair of the board for Students, Alumni, and Faculty for Equality on Campus (S.A.F.E. Campus), a 501C3 charitable non-profit organization that advocates for Jews on college campuses.
Professor Lax is a seasoned former litigation attorney, having practiced in the areas of antitrust and securities fraud, employment law, and complex commercial litigation. After seven years of lecturing at multiple campuses as an adjunct professor, Professor Lax transitioned to academia full time at CUNY in 2004. Professor Lax is a legal scholar, focusing the first half of his career primarily publishing on women’s workplace rights. Over the past decade, Lax has expanded his expertise, writing and lecturing extensively on campus and faculty union antisemitism.
Professor Lax appears frequently on-air, both as a sought-after antisemitism expert and for general legal analysis. Professor Lax has provided analysis for a variety of major networks including Fox News, NBC, CBS, Newsmax, Court TV, Law and Crime, Scripps, and others. In addition to his expertise on antisemitism both as an attorney and as someone fighting it on the front lines in academia, Professor Lax has covered nearly every major trial over the last several years, including Depp/Heard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Derek Chauvin (George Floyd murder), Kyle Rittenhouse, Jussie Smollette, Darrell Brooks, and many others.