VIRTUAL: Plenary One - The Audacity of Justice: Remembering Nuremberg

Plenary 1 - The Audacity of Justice: Remembering Nuremberg  
November 9, 1:00 pm (CDT) 

Convened within months of the end of World War II, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg was a galvanizing event in history, marking a watershed moment in modern law.  The first panel will explore how the Trial 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 their impact on the world today. 

Panelists: 

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. Free to the public.