Amos Guiora

Amos N. Guiora directs the Bystander Initiative, S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah.

He is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and a Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at the International Center for Conflict Resolution, Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.

Professor Guiora is on the Board of the Lauren McClusky Foundation, and the Board of Advisors of SESAME.

Professor Guiora is the recipient of the University of Utah’s Distinguished Faculty Service award and was named by the SJ Quinney Class of 2024 as “Outstanding Professor.”

For the past 10 years Guiora has been researching-writing-lecturing on the question of bystanders (originally in the Holocaust) and enablers resulting in his books, The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust, and Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults.  Professor Guiora has been involved in efforts to criminalize bystanders and enablers and has testified before legislatures and courts as an expert witness in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the U.S.

Professor Guiora is regularly interviewed by local, national, and international media.

Professor Guiora’s most recent book, The Complicity of Silence: Confronting Ecosystems of Child Sexual Abuse in Schools, addresses the role of enablers in sexual assault of children.

Professor Guiora has an A.B. in history from Kenyon College, a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and a Ph.D. from Leiden University.