January 27: Nazi Laws: From Democracy to Dictatorship to Genocide

In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prof. Mansfield will discuss the Nazi Party’s rise to power in Germany in the years preceding the Holocaust, the legislative means by which the party and its leader, Adolph Hitler, took the country from the democratic Weimar Republic to the dictatorship it became, the anti-Jewish Nazi laws of the time, and the Nazi court system.
Title:
Nazi Laws: From Democracy to Dictatorship to Genocide
Webinar Date+Time:
Thursday, January 27, 2022

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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Also Presented In-Person at Case Western Reserve University School of Law George Gund Hall Room A59, Moot Courtroom 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106
Speaker:

Cathy Mansfield

Professor  is a senior instructor in law at CWRU ScCathy Mansfieldhool of Law. Before joining the CWRU Law faculty, she was a professor of law at Drake University Law School and visiting professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Mansfield teaches a variety of consumer, payments and commercial law courses, and also teaches a course called “Holocaust and the Law.” She is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Center for National Security and Human Rights Law. She is the composer and librettist of an opera, entitled "The Sparks Fly Upward," that follows three German families in Berlin, two Jewish and one Christian, through the Holocaust, and she is founder and executive director of The Sparks Fly Upward Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, genocide and tolerance through presentations of Sparks, and ancillary activities.
By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Co-sponsored by Siegal Lifelong Learning Program Credit:

• Ohio: 1.5 hour of online CLE credit, pending approval
• Other Jurisdictions: You may be able to self-apply to your credit-granting authority.

Cost:
Free and open to the public.

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