Amos N. Guiora, Ph.D.; J.D.

Amos N. Guiora has a A.B. from Kenyon College, J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and a Ph.D. from Leiden University. He is a Professor (Lecturer) at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah where he directs the Bystander Initiative, https://www.law.utah.edu/bystander-initiative/,

Guiora is a Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at the International Center for Conflict Resolution at University of Pittsburgh, a non-Resident Fellow, George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, a Distinguished Fellow, Chicago Kent College of Law’s Consortium on Research on the Study of the Holocaust and the Law, a member of the Board of Advisors for S.E.S.A.M.E., a member of the Board of Directors of the Lauren McClusky Foundation, Member Consultant Group, Holocaust Claims Commission, was the inaugural chair of the University of Utah Independent Review Committee, and chaired the Gymnastics Canada Task Force on Assault. 

For the past 10 years, he has been researching the question of bystanders and enablers, resulting in a number of books including The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust, Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults, The Complicity of Silence: Confronting Ecosystems of Child Sexual Abuse in Schools, and Enablers: Normalizing the Unimaginable (forthcoming, American Bar Association Series: Guiora on Enablers, Bystanders, and Institutional Complicity). 

He has also authored several law review articles addressing enablers and bystanders and has testified on this issue both in the U.S. and abroad. In 2023, Guiora received the University of Utah’s Bennion Center Distinguished Faculty Service Award for his work on enablers and bystanders and in 2024 was voted Outstanding Professor by the S.J. Quinney College of Law 2024 graduating class.