GULFPORT, Fla., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stetson University
College of Law and the Florida Holocaust Museum will present "Legacy of the
Nuremberg Trials: Genesis of Modern International Law & Questions of
Professional Ethics" at 7 p.m. on March 30 at the museum, 55 Fifth St. S., St.
Petersburg, Fla.
"The goal of the program is to start a public dialogue about the
importance of Nuremberg, and to engage people in thinking about justice, law,
the preservation of the legacy of the trials, and what this legacy means to
the 21st century," said Florida Holocaust Museum Director of Curatorial
Affairs Noreen Brand.
An exhibit entitled "Pursuing Justice: Nuremberg's Legacy" opened at the
museum in December. The exhibit focuses on the two sets of trials that have
become known as the Nuremberg Trials: the International Military Tribunal for
the major Nazi war criminals and the twelve subsequent trials conducted under
Control Council Number 10 at the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal for those
not tried at the IMT. The IMT set the pattern for the subsequent trials as
well as hundreds of trials of war criminals tried in the decades since 1945.
This exhibit, featuring the papers and books of Judge Harold L. Sebring, a
judge at the Nuremberg Tribunal and former Florida State Supreme Court Judge
and Dean of Stetson University College of Law, will be open at 6 p.m. at the
Florida Holocaust Museum. Judge Sebring's collection is on loan from the
Stetson Law library.
The seminar brings together a panel of legal scholars to discuss the
significance of the trials. Stetson Professor Dorothea Beane will introduce
the program. Beane is an expert on international criminal law and human rights
issues.
The panel of speakers includes:
* Jonathan Bush, expert on the law of war and law professor, Columbia
University
* John Q. Barrett, Nuremberg scholar and law professor, St. John's
University School of Law
* Edward Kissi, leading genocide scholar and professor, Africana Studies,
the University of South Florida
* Michael J. Bazyler, holocaust scholar and law professor, Whittier Law
School
* Gregory S. Gordon, trial attorney, Office of Special Investigations,
U.S. Dept. of Justice, who served in the Office of the Prosecutor for the
International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda
To register for this seminar, please contact the Continuing Legal
Education office at Stetson Law by March 29 at 813-228-0226,
cle@law.stetson.edu, or visit http://www.law.stetson.edu/cle .
Editor's Note: Journalists are invited to attend this seminar free of
tuition.
To download a high-resolution photo of Professor Dorothea Beane, please
visit http://www.law.stetson.edu/faculty/beane.asp .
Visit the Florida Holocaust Museum at http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org .
Stetson University College of Law is Florida's first law school. It has
educated lawyers for more than a century and offers continuing legal education
programs for regional, national and international audiences. Stetson is ranked
first in advocacy and third in legal writing by the 2006 U.S. News & World
Report national rankings and is the headquarters for the National Conference
of Law Reviews. To learn more about the College of Law, please visit our Web
site at http://www.law.stetson.edu .
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http://www.law.stetson.edu
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http://www.law.stetson.edu/cle
http://www.law.stetson.edu/faculty/beane.asp
CONTACT:
Brandi Palmer, Communications Specialist,
Stetson University College of Law, +1-727-562-7381
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