Plenary Two - Search for Justice: The Prosecutors of Evil
Monday, November 9, 3:00 pm
Following the Trial of Major War Criminals, there were 12 additional trials held at Nuremberg. Known as the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials (December 1946 to April 1949), 177 high-ranking physicians, judges, industrialists, SS and police commanders, military personnel, civil servants, and diplomats were tried. This panel will discuss the role of key U.S. prosecutors, Bernard Meltzer, Telford Taylor, Ben Ferencz, and Whitney Harris. Panelists will explore the impact the trials had on revealing the extent to which the German leadership class supported the Nazi dictatorship and the lasting legal and human rights legacy of these four men today.
Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg Prosecutor
Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Leila Nadya Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law, Director, Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, and Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor
Moderator: Ian Hurd, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies, Northwestern University. Author of How to Do Things With International Law and International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice.
Closing Keynote – The Nuremberg Principles: Lessons for Today
Anticipated Start at 4:15 pm (CST)Renowned constitutional law scholar Laurence H. Tribe (Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School) will deliver closing remarks. A member of the Harvard Law School faculty since 1968, Tribe is regarded as the most influential figure in American Constitutional history, with the most widely read treatise, having trained a dazzling array of “impactful citizens” from President Barack Obama and Justice Elena Kagan to Chief John Roberts and countless others.
Free to public
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