Law, Leadership, and Institutional Courage with Judge Roy Altman

Walk away able to separate evidence from propaganda — and to recognize the legal and rhetorical patterns behind today’s antisemitic narratives before they take hold.

Judge Roy Altman joins us at The Dupree for a timely conversation on law, leadership, and the fight against antisemitism, which today permeates civic life through slogans, distorted history, selective narratives, and institutional decisions made without evidence or accountability — and when institutions accept propaganda as fact, the result is not just bad discourse, it creates space for anti-democratic norms.

Judge Altman’s book, Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law, applies legal standards to the political claims made against Jews and their support for Israel. He will share his analysis and reflections, followed by a moderated conversation and audience Q&A with Keath Blatt, Executive Director of Jewish Action Coalition.

Judge Roy K. Altman was confirmed to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on April 4, 2019. At 36, he became the youngest federal district court judge in the country—and the youngest federal judge ever appointed in the Southern District of Florida.

Judge Altman’s first book, Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law (2026), became an instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller and has been widely excerpted and acclaimed in publications around the world. Judge Altman’s writing on subjects ranging from American constitutionalism, the importance of public service and the jury system, Israel’s legitimacy, and the future of Venezuela have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the country, including in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and The Free Press.

Judge Altman received a B.A. from Columbia University, where he played quarterback on the football team and pitched for the baseball team—earning All-Ivy honors. Judge Altman received his J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he was projects editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, Judge Altman clerked on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Stanley Marcus.

Breakfast will be served. Copies of Israel on Trial will be available.

Doors open at 8:15 AM.