Speakers

John Q. Barrett

1986 J.D. Harvard University, USA.

Professor of Law at St. John's University in New York City and Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York.

He is writing the biography of the late United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, who was architect of and then chief United States prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg during 1945-46. Professor Barrett discovered, edited and introduced Justice Jackson's previously unknown, now acclaimed memoir That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press). Professor Barrett sends periodic "Jackson List" email to over 20,000 readers around the world who are interested in Justice Jackson, Nuremberg, constitutional law and history, and related topics.

Neil Boister

1988 LLM cum laude, University of Natal, South Africa.

1998-2000 lecturer in criminal law, international law and European criminal law at Nottingham University, GB; 1999 PhD.

Neil Boister is a Professor in the School of Law, University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand. He is the co-author of Neil Boister and Robert Cryer, "The Tokyo International Military Tribunal: A Reappraisal" (Oxford: OUP, 2008), and co-editor of Neil Boister and Robert Cryer (eds.), "Documents on the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal: Charter, Indictment and Judgments" (Oxford: OUP, 2008), and has given a number of papers on the Tokyo War crimes trials.

Elizabeth Borgwardt

PhD in history at Stanford University, USA.

Harvard Law School, JD 1990

Since 2006, following several lecturer's appointments currently associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis/USA.

Research focus: "Crimes against Humanity" in history, law, and politics; war crimes trials and transitional justice; legal and constitutional history & theory.

Thomas Bryant

2005 MA in history, political science and sociology, Humboldt University at the University of Berlin.

2008 PhD.

Since 2008, has worked as historian and free-lance lecturer.

Nina Burkhardt

1998-2004 studied recent and contemporary history and cultural science at the University of Leipzig.

2007 PhD.

Since October 2007, scientific assistant at the Museum for Communication, Berlin.

David Cesarani

PhD in Oxford.

Currently Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London, GB.

Research interests: modern Jewish history and culture in Europe, Britain and North America, especially Jewish immigration and settlement; identity, ethnicity and 'race'; modern German history; genocide. Author of the publication "Eichmann. His Life and Crimes" (2004).

He served on the advisory board of the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust exhibition and, among other things, has made a number of radio documentaries for the BBC.

David M. Crane

J.D., Syracuse University, USA.

2002-2005 founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Since 2006, professor of practice in international criminal law, international law, international humanitarian law, and national security law, Syracuse University College of Law, New York/USA.

Jost Dülffer

Studied history, Latin, political science, and sociology at the universities of Hamburg and Freiburg im Breisgau.

1982-2008 Professor of Modern History at Cologne University.

Research focus includes: historic peace and conflict studies.

Christian Delage

Christian Delage is an historian and filmmaker. He teaches at the University of Paris VIII and at the EHESS, where he also completed his post-doctoral thesis and lecturing qualification.

Since the mid-1990s, he has worked on the history of the Holocaust, in particular on a filmic record of the liberation of the Nazi camps by the Allies in 1945. Since 2000, he has focused on the history of the Nuremberg Trials.

He recently published the book, "Film as Evidence. From Nuremberg to the Milosevic Trials" and directed a documentary, "Nuremberg. The Nazis Facing Their Crimes".

Brian K. Feltman

2002 MA in history at Clemson University, USA.

2004 publication "Legitimizing Justice: The American Press and the International Military Tribunal".

Currently lecturer and PhD doctoral candidate in history at Ohio State University, USA.

Laura Jockusch

Studied Judaic studies, history, and sociology at the Free University of Berlin, and Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University.

2007 PhD in Jewish history.

Currently working as post-doctoral fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, and in the Department for Jewish History at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva/Israel. Her current research programme addresses the Jewish perception of the Trials of the War Criminals held by the Allied Powers.

Rainer Huhle

Political scientist in Nuremberg.

He is a member of the board of the association "Nuremberg Human Rights Centre" and deputy director of the board of trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights.

Between 1986 and 1999 he worked for the Protestant church's development services, focussing on human rights work in South America.

Between 1997 and 1999 he was a resident expert in the Colombian office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Klaus Kastner

1962 PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.

1998-2001 President of the Regional Court Nürnberg-Fürth.

Honorary professor of law at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, author of numerous publications on the Nuremberg Trials.

Claus Kreß

Studied Law in Cologne, Geneva, Strasbourg and Cambridge.

Since 1998 german representative in the negotiations regarding the International Criminal Court.

2001 War Crimes Expert for the Prosecutor General for East Timor.

Since 2004 Professor for German, European and International Criminal Law as well as International Peace and Security Law and the Law of Armed Conflict at Cologne University.

Since 2005 Director of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Cologne University.

Natalja Lebedeva

1962 graduated from Moscow State Institute of History and Archives.

In 1971 defended PhD dissertation. In 1996 received title of Dr. habil in Poland.

Currently - leading research employee at the Institute of Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Editor of over 20 published volumes of archival documents dealing i.a. with the history of the Katyn crime and the Nuremberg Trial.

Michael R. Marrus

Studed history at the Universities of Toronto, Canada, and California, Berkeley, USA.

1968 PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Currently lecturer at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Research focus includes Vichy France and the Holocaust.

Sven Peitzner

Studied law at the Universities of Regensburg and Berlin.

Temporary scientific staff at the Chair for Law of Criminal Procedure at the Free University of Berlin.

Since 1996 lawyer in Berlin.

Since 2009, postgraduate study project at the MPI for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg.

Christoph J. M. Safferling

Studied law in Munich and London.

Since 2006, professor of criminal law, law of criminal procedure, international criminal law and international law at the Philipps University of Marburg, and director of the Research and Documentation Centre for the Trials of War Criminals.

Member of the scientific consulting committee for the establishment of the "Memorial Nuremberg Trials".

Michael Salter

1978 LL.B degree at Southampton University, GB.

1988 Ph.D. in law at University of Sheffield, GB.

He is currently teaching legal theory and research methods and lectures on war crime trials, and moral dilemmas and law at the Law School of the University of Central Lancashire.

He has numerous publications, including articles on the role of intelligence agencies within World War II war crimes trials.

James B. Sedgwick

2004 MA in history at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch/ New Zealand.

2008/2009 various publications on the Nuremberg Trials and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Since 2005 has been a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia/ Canada.

Hans-Ulrich Wagner

Studied German and Theology in Bamberg and Münster.

1996 PhD at the University of Bamberg.

Scientific staff at the German Broadcasting Archive.

Since December 2000, staff, since 2005 director of the Research Centre for Broadcasting History in Northern Germany.

Annette Wieviorka

1991 Ph.D. at the University of Paris XIII Nanterre.

1995 Post-doctoral thesis and lecturing qualification at the University of Paris I.

Currently director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Centre for Scientific Research) in Paris/France.

Publications on the Nuremberg Trial, as well as on France and the trials of crimes against humanity, further research interest includes the Shoa in France.

Moderators

Donald M. Ferencz, Director of the Planethood Foundation

Steffen Radlmaier, Journalist and Author, Nuremberg

Peter März, Historian, Director of Bavarian State Centre for Civic Education

Robert Sigel, Historian, Bavarian State Centre for Civic Education