Contact: Darren Johnson, (631) 761-7062

February 22, 2007

Touro Film on the Nuremberg Trials Wins Award, PBS Air Date

New York, N.Y. – A prestigious award, and now a local airdate on PBS.

Touro Law Center's one-hour documentary "Hitler's Courts" recently received the 2007 Excellence in Cinema Award from the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival. Producer-directors Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar were on hand to receive the award on behalf of Touro at a special awards ceremony on February 10 in Manhattan.

The film will air on WNET Channel 13 in New York at 12 noon on Saturday, April 14, as part of the distinguished series "The Open Mind." The program will also feature an interview with the Hon. Sol Wachtler, the former Chief Judge of New York State and an adjunct professor at Touro Law Center.

Touro College Law Center recently premiered its new documentary film to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, based on a very successful international conference the law school organized in Germany last year. The film has been well received by audiences at screenings in New York City, Long Island and Florida.

For information about purchasing the film, contact Allison Flor at 631-761-7064 or aflor@tourolaw.edu.

“Hitler’s Courts: The Betrayal of the Rule of Law in Nazi Germany” was created by Emmy Award nominees Greene and Kumar. It is intended for television broadcast and use in high schools, universities and law schools. Their previous documentary, “Witness: Voices from the Holocaust,” aired nationally on PBS.

“Hitler’s Courts” features archival footage from the Nazi era, rarely seen photographs, and interviews with leading voices in international law, including Whitney R. Harris, a member of the prosecuting team in Nuremberg in 1947; retired Israeli Supreme Court Justice Gabriel Bach, former assistant prosecutor at the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann; Michael J. Bazyler, Professor of Law at Whittier Law School; and Raymond Brown, Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School. In July 2005, Touro had gathered these leading legal minds at its well-received “Judging Nuremberg” conference in Nuremberg, Germany.

These and other experts who appear in the film examine the perversion of law under Nazi rule and discuss how distinguished lawmakers were capable of complicity in the largest mass murder in history.

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