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...president can order it done anyway. “Executive officials can escape prosecution if they are carrying out the president’s orders as commander in chief,” Bybee writes, invoking the infamous defense the United States had rejected for Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. Harold H. Koh ’75, a dean and professor of international law at Yale, described the Bybee memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee as “the most clearly erroneous legal opinion I have ever read,” noting that it so “grossly overreads...
...earth mother vs. career mother is pointless and divisive. It is important to realize that nowadays educated, experienced women like me are not necessarily wasting our skills by staying at home; rather we are choosing to use our skills for another good cause - raising our children. Annette Cashell Nuremberg, Germany Your article reported that German women are forced to choose between working or having a family. I came to Germany from Italy to study at a university in Munich. My idea of Germany was one of a technologically driven, progressive and modern society. Eighteen years later, after working and having...
Gradually, the restrictions escalated into the renowned Nuremberg Laws—legislation that deprived Jews of German citizenship and the attendant voting rights, Bernstein said...
...final piece of the program, “Small Dances About Big Ideas.” This piece was commissioned by the Harvard Law School’s Facing History and Ourselves Program, in conjunction with its conference this past week that honored the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials and encouraged analysis of the current state of genocide-related law. The piece combined a wide variety of inputs—including excerpts from music pieces, recorded speeches, and even live narration with a series of danced vignettes that loosely traced the history of genocide from the Holocaust to Rwanda...
...experiences prosecuting war criminals—including former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic—with a large gathering of undergraduate and graduate students in the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. In her first speech to an American university audience, just a month before the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, Del Ponte discussed how her tribunal attempts to address the unlawful actions of political and military leaders from the former Yugoslavia. Born in Lugano, Switzerland, the 52-year-old Del Ponte rose to the position of Swiss attorney general, investigating connections between Italian drug dealers and Swiss money launderers, former...