Professor Marshall Breger co-taught a seminar on the Holocaust and the Law Tuesday, March 28, with Michael Bazyler, Professor of Law and 1939 Society Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at The Fowler School of Law, Chapman University in California. The seminar was held at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and Breger joined via zoom from Catholic Law.

Breger spoke about the failed efforts by Raphael Lemkin to have the crime of genocide recognized and added as a count in the Nuremberg Trials. He discussed its later inclusion as treaty law. He discussed as well the origin and use of the crime of aggression by the Nuremberg Tribunal and the proposed use of that concept in any Ukrainian trial of Russians for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

At Catholic Law Breger has taught courses on the “Legal Issues of the Middle East Peace Process”; “Legal Issues of the states, Jerusalem”; and “Public International Law.”

Also on March 27, Breger was part of The Nuremberg Principles: The Contemporary Challenges at Catholic University, which brought together lawyers, historians, theologians, and human rights activists from around the world. These luminaries convened to discuss the applicability of the Nuremberg Principles in protecting human dignity, promoting human rights, and enforcing international criminal law in the context of today. Click here to learn more.