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First Wednesday Series - Judgement Day at Nuremberg: Reflections after 75 Years
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Before the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, there were a long series of treaties, agreements and assurances that attempted to limit the evil done in times of war and to even reduce or eliminate the threat of war itself. By trying and punishing those Nazi leaders who ignored those pacts, Nuremberg and its subsequent trials and the agreements that followed it created precedents by which the nations of the world can hold states and statesmen accountable for aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
We will discuss the way the original trial created a set of international standards that held leaders accountable for aggression and breaking the laws of war and created the concept of crimes against humanity.
We will then follow those themes to analyze how those standards have been applied and continue being applied today. In particular, the application of the post-Nuremberg treaties and prosecution of crimes against humanity at the modern-day ad hoc tribunals and the crime of aggression at the International Criminal Court. As part of the discussion, we will reflect on the parallels between the original trial at Nuremburg and the genocide trials before the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Mr. S. David Fript, Educational Advisor to Courtroom 600 and Co-Founder of React Learning, Courtroom600.org
Adam Weber, Trial Attorney, Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Adam Weber is best known for his prominent role as a Trial Attorney at the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). At the ICTY, he prosecuted cases involving senior political, police, and military officials for the commission of mass atrocity crimes. In his final case, Mr. Weber helped secure the conviction of General Ratko Mladić for genocide and crimes against humanity. His international experience includes deployments to areas of the former Yugoslavia, Africa, the Middle East, and China.
Mr. Weber is the Director of the Trial Advocacy LL.M. program at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a Deputy Supervisor in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. He also serves as an Advisory Director at Kent’s Center for National Security and Human Rights Law.
John M. Geiringer, Partner and Regulatory Section Leader, Barack Ferrazzano Financial Institutions Group; Co-Director, Center for National Security and Human Rights Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Barack Ferrazzano LLP, Chicago
As the Regulatory Section Leader of the Financial Institutions Group at Barack Ferrazzano law firm, John advises a wide variety of financial institutions around the country about the full spectrum of legal, regulatory, and supervisory issues that they face. He is a frequent speaker and author in the financial institutions area on issues surrounding banking regulations, examinations, and enforcement actions, as well as on cybersecurity. John devotes significant time to anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, and related national security issues. In this regard, he lectures and advises institutions around the country, engages with relevant organizations, and has published on the subject.
John also teaches banking law, national security law, and Holocaust and the law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and is the founding Co-Director of its Center for National Security and Human Rights Law. He is the editor of Countering the Financing of Terrorism: Law and Policy, and is the co-editor of an upcoming treatise on legal issues surrounding the Holocaust.
Along with Rabbi Asher Lopatin, he is the co-host of a podcast called A Rabbi and a Lawyer Walk Into a Bar.
