The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies,

UC Berkeley present

April 27-28, 2015

Monday, April 27

International Conference at UC Berkeley

at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

5:30 pm Reception

6:15 - 7:00 pm

Film Screening Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

7:00 - 8:00 pm

Q & A with
Sandra Schulberg, filmmaker and producer and
Richard Buxbaum, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

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Tuesday, April 28

at the Bancroft Hotel

8:30 am

Breakfast

9:00 am

Welcome
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

9:15am -10:45 Am

Panel I Nuremberg as Legal and Historical Precedent

Moderator

Andrea Sinn, 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
Nurembergs 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
10:45 am

Coffee Break

11:00 Am 1:00 pm Panel II Where Were the Jews at Nuremberg?:

Rethinking the Roles of Victims and Perpetrators in

Trials of the Holocaust
Moderator
Speakers

John Efron, Koret Professor of History, UC Berkeley

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

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Lunch

2:30 - 4:00 pm

Panel III History, Memory, and Morality: Revisiting the

Holocaust and Nuremberg through the Lens of Today

Moderator

Irving Abella, Shiff Professor of Canadian Jewish History

at York University

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

4:30 pm

Reception

5:30 - 7:00 pm

Keynote Lecture Justice After Nuremberg

JUSTICE Rosalie Abella, Supreme Court of Canada

The conference is organized jointly by the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and the Center for
Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley, and is funded generously by The Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Jewish Studies.
Co-sponsors: 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, East European, and Eurasian Studies; the Human Rights Center; the Berkeley Human Rights Program; the
Center for German and European Studies, and the Institute of International Studies