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Review Of A Final Accounting, Holocaust Survivors And Swiss Banks, Adeen Postar
Review Of A Final Accounting, Holocaust Survivors And Swiss Banks, Adeen Postar
Adeen Postar
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Book Review (Reviewing Louis Fisher's Congress: Protecting Individual Rights), Adeen Postar
Book Review (Reviewing Louis Fisher's Congress: Protecting Individual Rights), Adeen Postar
Adeen Postar
Fisher is currently the Scholar in Residence at the Constitution Project, and is well known for his many years as Senior Specialist on Separation of Powers at the Congressional Research Service and as Specialist in Constitutional Law at the Law Library of Congress. He has extensive experience testifying before Congress on topics that include Congress and the constitution, war powers, executive power and privilege, and several aspects of the federal budget and its processes. He has written numerous books on these topics, including (to name only a few) The President and Congress: Power and Policy (1972); Defending Congress and the …
Book Review (Reviewing Leonard Orland's A Final Accounting), Adeen Postar
Book Review (Reviewing Leonard Orland's A Final Accounting), Adeen Postar
Adeen Postar
Leonard Orland is the Oliver Ellsworth Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. He has written a fine, if a bit unwieldy, book that traces the sad history of money and other assets deposited in supposedly sacrosanct Swiss banks by European Jews during the Nazi era to its long overdue resolution by the American justice system. The book provides background and perspective on how and why the $12.1 billion in pre-war dollars (about $250 trillion today) of financial assets of Holocaust victims disappeared into thin air in the years following World War II. These assets were given over to …