Book Talk with Professor Michael J. Bazyler: Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust

Thursday, November 5, 2015 
5 p.m.
Kennedy Hall Lobby
Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law 

Michael J. Bazyler, Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law Professor and 1939 Society Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, is a leading authority on the use of American and European courts to redress genocide and other historical wrongs. Please join us as he discusses his recent book, Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, which was recently featured in The New York Review of Books.

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the trial of the major Nazi war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg, Germany. The trial began November 20, 1945, with a public reading by the American, British, French and Soviet prosecutors of the indictments. It ended 315 days later, on October 1, 1946, with 22 verdicts read by the IMT judges. The Allied judges convicted 19 Germans, including the No. 2 Nazi Hermann Goering, and acquitted three.

Professor Bazyler will talk about the Nuremberg Trials, which marks the birth of modern international law.

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Read about Professor Bazyler’s recent trip to Germany with Dean Tom Campbell and Fowler School of Law Adjunct Professor Justice Richard Fybel for a 70th anniversary commemoration of the Nuremberg Nazi war crimes trial. The event was co-hosted by Chapman University Fowler School of Law, the California Judges Association and Creighton University School of Law. It was memorialized in a full length documentary by Fowler School of Law alumna Stephanie Lincoln (’14). Professor Bazyler will also speak at a commemoration conference at Loyola Law School on November 20, 2015.