April 27-28, 2015 InternatIonal ConferenCe at UC Berkeley

at the Magnes Collection of Jewish art and life5:30 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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at the Bancroft Hotel8:30 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

Monday, april 27

tuesday, april 28

the Berkeley Institute for Jewish law and Israel Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley present

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

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 John Efron, 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

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