Chapman Law Only School on Agenda of Prestigious Society
April 15, 2008
Thanks to Professor Michael Bazyler (who will join the Chapman law faculty this fall), Chapman University School of Law was the only law school that appeared on the Agenda of the annual meeting of the prestigious American Society of International Law in Washington, D.C. The Law School and the University’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education sponsored the final event, a Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the April 10, 1948 verdicts in the Einsatzgruppen zonal trial at Nuremberg and a Tribute to the still-living chief prosecutor of that Nuremberg trial, Benjamin Ferencz. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ferencz and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen_Trial. Professor Bazyler represented Chapman as the host of the Commemoration and Tribute, starting with a seven minute video powerpoint presentation of Ben Ferencz’s opening argument. Professor Bazyler also arranged for Ben Ferencz to be introduced by Eli Rosenbaum, the Director (and longest-serving director) of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) at the U.S. Department of Justice, the office responsible for tracking down and deporting still-living Nazis and collaborators in the U.S. as well as present-day genocides in Rwanda and elsewhere. It was a historic connection between two generations of prosecutors of war criminals and collaborators with the aim of inspiring young lawyers and law students to continue the work.