June 6: Profits & Persecution: German Big Business and Nazi Crimes

This Lunch & Learn program will feature Peter Hayes, PhD, who will share an analysis of why and how Germany’s largest corporations became deeply enmeshed in Nazi crimes. From a legal perspective, Dr. Hayes will specifically highlight the issue of justice and punishment, as only a handful of the industrialists involved in Nazi crimes ever suffered any penalty.
Title:
Profits & Persecution: German Big Business and Nazi Crimes
Date+Time:
June 6, 2023 12:00 PM 

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Speaker:
Peter Hayes (Ph.D., Yale, 1982) specializes in the histories of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and, in particular, in the conduct of the nation’s largest corporations during the Third Reich. He taught at Northwestern for thirty-six years from 1980 to 2016, served on the academic boards of multiple professional societies and Holocaust memorial sites, featured in many documentary films, and published and edited thirteen books and more than ninety articles on the Holocaust.
Credit:
For legal professionals, this program will fill 1.25 Continuing Legal Education Ethics credits. The general public is welcome to attend this event.
By:
Holocaust Center For Humanity
In addition to the legal community, the general public are welcome to attend.

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May 3: Hitler’s Courts: The Misuse of Executive and Judicial Power

Joshua M. Greene

What happens when the legal establishment becomes a tool in the hands of a dictatorial government? This eye-opening talk by author-filmmaker Joshua M. Greene reveals the consequences of appointing judges based not on their wisdom but on their allegiance to the head of state.
Topics to be discussed include:

• How the imprimatur of law assured Hitler's success;
• How distinguished jurists became complicit in genocide
• Our power as individuals to influence historic events

Title:
Hitler’s Courts: The Misuse of Executive and Judicial Power
Date+Time:
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
12pm-1pm (PT)
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Speaker:
Joshua M. Greene is a Fellow at Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. He completed his graduate degrees in religious studies at Hofstra University. His books on Holocaust history have sold more than one-half million copies and are published in five languages, and his documentary films on war crimes trials and eyewitness testimony are seen on PBS and Discovery. He has been a featured speaker at the Pentagon, the Judge Advocates College, the New York Public Library Distinguished Authors series, and at synagogues, churches, universities, and law schools nationwide. He served as Director of Strategic Planning for the United Nations Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders and is a mediator serving in the New York area.

Credit:
1 Washington State Bar CLE Ethics Credit Available. You may be able to apply for credit in other states.
By:
Holocaust Center For Humanity
Special thank you to the Holocaust Center's Lawyer's Committee: Ruth Atherton, Marc Boman, Kathy Feldman, Chuck Maduell, Christina MacDonald, Jay Riffkin, Rob Spitzer, and Jeff Sprung.
In addition to the legal community, the general public are welcome to attend.

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March 9: The Crime of Complicity: Law and the Bystander from the Holocaust to Today

Join the Holocaust Center for Humanity and Washington State legal professionals for a special virtual Lawyers CLE program & Lunch-and-Learn with Professor Amos Guiora: "The Crime of Complicity: Law and the Bystander from the Holocaust to Today." In addressing the bystander from the perspective of a crime of omission, one of the most important questions is whether we are examining a legal or ethical dilemma.
Professor Guiora proposes that the most appropriate lens is that of a strict legal examination; others suggest this as an ethical dilemma. In his talk, Professor Guiora will address this conflict by presenting the competing tensions between law and ethics.
In addition to legal professionals, this program is open to the public and is a part of the Holocaust Center's weekly Lunch-and-Learn series.
Title:
The Crime of Complicity: Law and the Bystander from the Holocaust to Today
Date+Time:
Tuesday, March 9,2021
12-1pm PT 

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Speaker:
Amos Guiora, Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Credit:
1 Washington State Bar CLE Ethics Credit Available
By:
Holocaust Center For Humanity
In addition to the legal community, the general public are welcome to attend.

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September 2: Law as an Instrument of Mass Crimes? The Legal System Under the Third Reich

Hitler’s Germany disturbingly demonstrated how a legal system can become an instrument of state-sponsored mass atrocities. This program will examine questions such as:

• How did the Nazi state succeed in perverting the German legal system?
• What role did prominent lawyers and judges play in resisting or assisting this perversion of the legal system?
• Are there limits to how law can be perverted before it ceases to function as law?
• What lessons apply from the German case to challenges facing lawyers today?

Join us for a special virtual CLE program with Speaker Lawrence Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College.
Title:
Law as an Instrument of Mass Crimes? The Legal System Under the Third Reich
Date+Time:
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Speaker:
Lawrence Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at Amherst College.
Credit:
1 Washington State Bar CLE Ethics Credit Available
By:
Holocaust Center For Humanity
In addition to the legal community, the general public are welcome to attend.

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