Contact: Darren Johnson, Director of Communications
(631) 421-2244, ext. 383, djohnson@tourolaw.edu

May 6, 2005

Touro to Lead Major War Crimes Examination –

In Nuremberg on 60th Anniversary

Topical and Timely, International Conference
Brings Together Top Legal Minds

Nuremberg, Germany – Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center will head the world’s most in-depth examination of history’s most infamous racial hate laws and most famous war-crime hearings in the most appropriate of settings – the actual courtroom where the Nuremberg Trails were held, the Nazi Documentation Centre and Rally Grounds and the concentration camp at Dachau. The conference runs July 17-20.

Marking the 60^th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials and the 70^th anniversary of Hitler’s racial hate laws, the international conference will, for the first and likely only time, gather the world’s primary sources: top legal minds and Holocaust scholars from the era. Many speakers served in Nuremberg, legal pioneers who established for the first time a world court that tried people for crimes against humanity. Also, modern scholars will discuss how Nuremberg changed the world, including the trials of war crimes today.

“We are very proud to sponsor this event,” said Dean Lawrence Raful of Touro Law School, based in Huntington, NY. “We have organized an impressive list of speakers, who will discuss the history, the jurisprudence and the lessons of the Nuremberg Trials.

“There are many different methods of studying this important event in the history of war, law and retribution, but there is no better place to do it than Nuremberg: Sitting in Courtroom 600, inspecting the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, touring the Documentation Centre, and listening to international scholars discuss what happened in these places. This will be a tremendous opportunity for lawyer and non-lawyer, Christian and Jew, American and European to join together to remember and to learn.”

To register for the event call 631-421-2244 ext. 355, e-mail Nuremberg@tourolaw.edu or visit www.tourolaw.edu/nuremberg.

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