A forum for discussions linking lessons from the Holocaust and other genocides with contemporary issues in a legal context. It is comprised of lawyers with a wide range of practice areas, and a common interest learning about the Holocaust.
2025 Legal Committee Members
Steven Beigelmacher, Perkins Coie LLP
Marc Boman (Retired), Preston, Gates & Ellis, LLP
Evan Caplicki, Nossman LLP
Sonja Carlson, Microsoft
Kathy Feldman, Ogden Murphy Wallace
Ronald Friedman, Ogden Murphy Wallace
Deborah B. Josephson, Josephson & Associates
Lucas Michels, Ironmark Law Group, PLLC
Jason Nagel, Judge, Office of Administrative Hearings
Jay Riffkin, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP
Sabina Shapiro, Stoel Rives LLP
Rob Spitzer, Foster Garvey PC
Jeremy Wood, Fisher Phillips
Previous Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Sessions
Understanding the Magnitsky Act in Today’s Climate | Jamison Firestone and Yuliya Ziskina
Profits & Persecution: German Big Business and Nazi Crimes | Peter Hayes, PhD
Hitler's Courts: The Misuse of Executive and Judicial Power | Joshua Green
Restitution After WWII: Suing Hitler's Business Partners | Michael Bazyler
The Crime of Complicity: Law and the Bystander from the Holocaust to Today | Amos N. Guiora
Law as an Instrument of Mass Crimes: The Legal System Under the Third Reich | James J. Grosfeld
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