Student Brief: “The Nazi Obsession with Legalizing the Holocaust” by Harry Reicher
by C-K Editor • November 20, 2009 • 0 Comments
By student blogger Moshe Zvi Marvit
On November 04, 2009, Professor Harry Reicher, Adjunct
Professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School and Scholar-in-Residence at
Touro Law School, presented “The Nazi Obsession with Legalizing the Holocaust”
to a packed room of students and faculty. Professor Reicher addressed up front
the inherent tensions of discussing the Holocaust and law, because the general
conception of the Holocaust is at odds with what most think of when one thinks
of the law. Where law is associated with justice, morality, due process, and
respect, the Holocaust is associated with brutality, injustice, dehumanization,
and hate.