LAW 7823 - Advanced Seminar: Holocaust

This course examines international human rights law through the legacy of the Holocaust. Topics to be covered are: 1) the legal system of Nazi Germany; 2) prosecution of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg and subsequent prosecutions under national legal systems, including the Eichmann trial in Israel, and the work in the United States of the Office of Special Investigations in the U.S. Department of Justice; 3) Holocaust denial, including the Irving v. Lipstadt in England; 4) Holocaust and the internet, including the Yahoo decisions in France and the United States and laws in various European nations dealing with hate speech and glorification of the Nazi era; 5) Holocaust restitution litigation in the United States to recover stolen wartime assets, including Nazi looted art; and 6) the legal legacy of the Holocaust upon the current International Criminal Court. Letter grade. 3 credits