ABA Shows Touro Law Center's Award-Winning Documentary
Powerful Film on the Judiciary in Nazi Germany
Spurs Examination of Threats to Rule of Law
Spurs Examination of Threats to Rule of Law
The sobering documentary film “Hitler’s Courts: The Betrayal of the Rule of Law in Nazi Germany,” which explores the complicity of the judiciary in Nazi atrocities, was the sobering prelude to a panel discussion Friday of how democracies can strengthen themselves against attacks on the rule of law.
“The film’s purpose has a relevancy in this time and this place,” said Professor Sol Wachler, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Central Islip, N.Y., during the ABA Midyear Meeting program “Subverting the Rule of Law: A Case Study and Discussion,” noting the ABA’s continuing efforts to help the legal community remain vigilant to threats against the rule of law.
Premiered at the Midyear Meeting, “Hitler’s Courts,” produced by the Touro Law Center and created by documentarians Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar, features archival footage, rarely seen photographs and interviews with leading voices in international law.
Following the screening, panelist Yabo Lin, a member of the ABA-Asia Law Initiative Council, spoke of growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution—a time that saw “the complete destruction of the rule of law.” On a fundamental level, the people came to regard the law as a tool for accomplishing what they considered right or wrong, rather than a tool for maintaining an independent legal system of checks and balances, said Lin.
Professors Stephen Saltzburg of George Washington University Law Center and Luz E. Nagle of Stetson University College of Law joined Lin, Wachler and audience members in a free-wheeling discussion of natural law versus written law, and other relevant issues.
The program was sponsored by the ABA Criminal Justice Section.
Intended for use in high schools, universities and law schools, “Hitler’s Courts” is available through Touro Law Center, 225 Eastview Drive, Central Islip, N.Y.
“The film’s purpose has a relevancy in this time and this place,” said Professor Sol Wachler, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Central Islip, N.Y., during the ABA Midyear Meeting program “Subverting the Rule of Law: A Case Study and Discussion,” noting the ABA’s continuing efforts to help the legal community remain vigilant to threats against the rule of law.
Premiered at the Midyear Meeting, “Hitler’s Courts,” produced by the Touro Law Center and created by documentarians Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar, features archival footage, rarely seen photographs and interviews with leading voices in international law.
Following the screening, panelist Yabo Lin, a member of the ABA-Asia Law Initiative Council, spoke of growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution—a time that saw “the complete destruction of the rule of law.” On a fundamental level, the people came to regard the law as a tool for accomplishing what they considered right or wrong, rather than a tool for maintaining an independent legal system of checks and balances, said Lin.
Professors Stephen Saltzburg of George Washington University Law Center and Luz E. Nagle of Stetson University College of Law joined Lin, Wachler and audience members in a free-wheeling discussion of natural law versus written law, and other relevant issues.
The program was sponsored by the ABA Criminal Justice Section.
Intended for use in high schools, universities and law schools, “Hitler’s Courts” is available through Touro Law Center, 225 Eastview Drive, Central Islip, N.Y.
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