David Fraser

David Fraser, Professor of Law and Social Theory, Faculty of Social Sciences, Law and Education, Nottingham University.

"David Fraser studied at Université Laval (civil law) and Dalhousie University (common law) and at Yale. He has taught in Canada (Dalhousie), the United States (SUNY Buffalo and Cardozo), and Australia (Sydney). Prior to coming to Nottingham, he was Research Professor in Law at Brunel University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia, the University of Texas, Austin and at the European University Institute. In 2003, he was a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. His research interests are in the fields of legal theory, modern/contemporary legal history, law and popular culture, hate crime, especially antisemitism and Holocaust Denial, and legal aspects of the Holocaust. He has recently completed a major study of the Nazi war crimes trials which took place in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s, supported by a grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York. His current research project examines the so-called "Jewish School Question" in Montreal from the 1880s to the 1990s."