From the Cardozo School of Law:
Thursday, October 30, 2014, 6 - 8pm
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
55 Fifth Avenue, Room 102
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
55 Fifth Avenue, Room 102
New York, NY 10003
On October 30th,
the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights (HGHR) Program at Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law presents a discussion "On the Implications for
Contemporary Law and Legal Scholarship of Vichy and Third Reich Judicial
Discourse." The event will begin at 6 pm at 55 Fifth
Avenue, Room 102. There will be a reception in the lobby following the
event.
The discussion will involve close readings of what passed for legal discourse in Vichy France and Nazi Germany, appraising its significance for today's legal scholarship, judges, and interpretive theory. Among specific developments to be discussed are a German court's recent description of circumcision in Jewish ritual as causing "severe physical injury," the relationship of law and morals generally, and the implications of Vichy's legal and academic discourse for the incipient renewal of anti-semitism in France.
The speakers are Prof. Otto Pfersmann, Prof. of Law, Paris-1, Pantheon, Sorbonne, and Prof. Richard Weisberg, Floersheimer Prof. of Constitutional Law and Founding Director, Cardozo Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Program.
The discussion will involve close readings of what passed for legal discourse in Vichy France and Nazi Germany, appraising its significance for today's legal scholarship, judges, and interpretive theory. Among specific developments to be discussed are a German court's recent description of circumcision in Jewish ritual as causing "severe physical injury," the relationship of law and morals generally, and the implications of Vichy's legal and academic discourse for the incipient renewal of anti-semitism in France.
The speakers are Prof. Otto Pfersmann, Prof. of Law, Paris-1, Pantheon, Sorbonne, and Prof. Richard Weisberg, Floersheimer Prof. of Constitutional Law and Founding Director, Cardozo Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Program.
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