This conference took place from April 27–28, 2015. It was organized jointly by the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies. It was funded generously by the Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsors included the UC Berkeley School of Law, the Department of History, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, the Jewish Student Union, the Institute of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, the Human Rights Center, the Berkeley Human Rights Program, the Center for German and European Studies/Institute of European Studies, the Institute of International Studies and The State Bar of California, International Law Section.
Conference Recording
Part i
Part I: Nuremberg as Legal and Historical Precedent
Andrea Sinn (Moderator), the DAAD-Professor for German History, UC Berkeley
SPEAKERS:
Michael Marrus, Senior Fellow of Massey College and the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto
Nuremberg’s Forgotten Origins: International Humanitarian Law
Michael Bazyler, Professor of Law, Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, 1939 Society Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies
The Nuremberg Trials and the Birth of Modern International Law
With a welcome from Kenneth Bamberger, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law; Director, Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies; and John Efron, Koret Professor of History, UC Berkeley
Part II
Part II: Where Were the Jews at Nuremberg?: Rethinking the Roles of Victims and Perpetrators in Trials of the Holocaust
John Efron (Moderator), Koret Professor of History, UC Berkeley
SPEAKERS
Richard Buxbaum, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
The Nuremberg Trial: Jews as Victims of ‘Realpolitik'
Hanna Yablonka, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Eichmann Trial: Was It the Jewish Nuremberg?
Eric Stover, Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health, UC Berkeley School of Law; Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center
From Eichmann to the Present: Victim Testimony in War Crimes Trials
PART III
Part III: History, Memory, and Morality: Revisiting the Holocaust and Nuremberg through the Lens of Today
Irving Abella (Moderator), Shiff Professor of Canadian Jewish History at York University Speakers
SPEAKERS
Devin Pendas, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston College
Contextualizing Nuremberg Today: War and Genocide, Human Rights, War Crimes Trials
Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College
On Law, History, and Memory: War Crimes Trials as the Atrocity Paradigm