Holocaust exhibit at RWU Law School focuses on Jewish lawyers, judges

Rogers Williams University Law School will present an exhibit about Jewish lawyers and judges who lived during the Nazi regime. “Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich” will be on display from July 30 to Aug. 31 at the law school in Bristol.

On Aug. 26 at 4:30 p.m. there will be an event at the law school with featured speaker Prof. Richard Weisberg, the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law at Cardozo Law School, who will provide further details on information covered by the exhibit. Weisberg has helped litigate successfully in American federal courts on behalf of Holocaust survivors and their heirs. He was also the founding director at Cardozo of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Program and the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy and writes widely in those areas, including his book “Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France.” RSVP for this event to Charlotte Ferris at cferris@rwu.edu.

This is an international exhibit about how the Nazis purged lawyers in an early step that attacked the rule of law in Germany. It has been shown throughout the U.S. and in Germany. It will be on display at Roger Williams University School of Law in the First and Second-Floor Atriums, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

After Aug. 31, the exhibit will move to the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island in Providence, where it will appear in the Courthouse’s Main Lobby from Sept. 8 through Oct. 2, Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The showing is sponsored by Roger Williams Univeristy School of Law and the U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island in conjunction with the American Bar Association and the German Federal Bar.