VIRTUAL: Plenary One CLE - The Audacity of Justice: Remembering Nuremberg
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Plenary 1 - The Audacity of Justice: Remembering Nuremberg
Monday, November 9, 1:00 pm
Convened within months of the end of the World War II, the Nuremberg Trials were a galvanizing moment in history, marking a watershed of modern law. The first panel will explore how the Trials attempted to seek justice in the face of the unprecedented crimes planned and implemented by Nazi Germany, the legal and political challenges of the Trial, and the impact on the world today.
John Q. Barrett, Professor of Law at St. John’s University, Board member & Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center, and biographer of U.S. Attorney General and U.S Supreme Court Justice Jackson, who served as U.S. Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg.
Hon. Melissa C. Jackson, Acting Supreme Court Justice, Criminal Term, New York County; former Administrative Judge for NYC Criminal Courts.
Thomas Weigend, Emeritus Professor, International, Comparative, and German Criminal Law at the University of Cologne
Moderator: John M. Geiringer, Co-Director, Center for National Security and Human Rights Law (and its Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law), Chicago-Kent College of Law. Partner, Barack Ferrazzano.
Reservations required.
Registration: $25.00 for MCLE Credit
4.50 Illinois MCLE Professional Responsibility Credits Available.
Participants must attend the 11/8 and both 11/9 plenaries to receive full CLE credit. Registration Required. $25 per session or $75 total for all three sessions.
Program registrants who are unable to afford continuing legal education program meeting registration fees due to financial hardship may petition for registration fee waivers or discounted program fees. To apply please email , the applicant must email Kelley.Szany@ilhmec.org and submit explanation stating why the fee associated with the program causes the lawyer financial hardship.
Fee waivers or discounted program fees will be awarded on a space-available basis, with preference given to applicants in order of date submitted.