Rona Kaufman is an associate professor at Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, where she teaches constitutional law, employment discrimination, family law, and gender and the law. Her scholarship focuses on intersections of law, women, motherhood, gender, antisemitism, antizionism, and Jewish peoplehood. Professor Kaufman was a recipient of the Wexner Foundation’s two-year Wexner Heritage fellowship (2018-2020). In 2024, she was selected to be a member of President Isaac Herzog’s Voice of the People first global cohort. Professor Kaufman serves on the Brandies Center for Human Rights’ Center for Legal Innovation advisory board and on the Holocaust Claims Commission’s legal education working group. In 2025, she studied antisemitism and Holocaust inversion and distortion at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Kaufman studied at Oxford with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism Policy in 2025. She is a member and faculty consultant of the Academic Engagement Network. She is the Chair of the Law & Antisemitism Conference which will take place in March at Cardozo Law School. She is also the co-founder of a new venture—the Center for Jewish Legal Studies —which advances legal frameworks to address antisemitism through legal scholarship, education, and professional collaboration.
Her opinions are her own. She does not represent her employer or any organization with which she is affiliated.
