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The Holocaust, Genocide And The Law: The Quest For Justice In A Post-Holocaust World, Michael Bazyler Dec 2012

The Holocaust, Genocide And The Law: The Quest For Justice In A Post-Holocaust World, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Forgotten Trials Of The Holocaust, Michael Bazyler, Frank Tuerkheimer Dec 2011

Forgotten Trials Of The Holocaust, Michael Bazyler, Frank Tuerkheimer

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Comparative Law: Global Legal Traditions For The 21st Century, Michael Bazyler, Abdullahi Al-Naim, Russell Miller, Peter Yu Dec 2011

Comparative Law: Global Legal Traditions For The 21st Century, Michael Bazyler, Abdullahi Al-Naim, Russell Miller, Peter Yu

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


The Thousand Year Reich's Over One Thousand Anti-Jewish Laws, Michael Bazyler Dec 2010

The Thousand Year Reich's Over One Thousand Anti-Jewish Laws, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


From Lamentation To Liturgy To Litigation: The Holocaust Restitution Movement As A Model For Bringing Armenian Genocide-Era Restitution Suits In American Courts, Michael Bazyler Dec 2010

From Lamentation To Liturgy To Litigation: The Holocaust Restitution Movement As A Model For Bringing Armenian Genocide-Era Restitution Suits In American Courts, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

The numerous Holocaust restitution civil lawsuits that began to be filed in the late 1990s and still continue today have yielded over $8 billion in payouts to still-living Holocaust survivors and the heirs of Holocaust victims. The precedent created by the Holocaust restitution movement now makes it possible for suits stemming from the material losses during the Armenian Genocide likewise to be considered by American courts. The Armenian Genocide-era restitution cases filed to date have targeted entities that, while allegedly profiting from the Armenian Genocide, nevertheless were tangential actors to the genocide. The next step in the burgeoning Armenian Genocide-era …


Reparation And Restitution, Michael Bazyler Dec 2010

Reparation And Restitution, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Litigating The Pillage Of Cultural Property In American Courts: Chabad V. Russian Federation And Lessons Learned, Michael Bazyler, Seth Gerber Dec 2010

Litigating The Pillage Of Cultural Property In American Courts: Chabad V. Russian Federation And Lessons Learned, Michael Bazyler, Seth Gerber

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


The Holocaust, Nuremberg And The Birth Of Modern International Law, Michael Bazyler Dec 2009

The Holocaust, Nuremberg And The Birth Of Modern International Law, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Japan Should Follow The International Trend And Face Its History Of World War Ii Forced Labor, Michael Bazyler Jan 2009

Japan Should Follow The International Trend And Face Its History Of World War Ii Forced Labor, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Holocaust Reparation And Restitution, Michael Bazyler Dec 2008

Holocaust Reparation And Restitution, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Foreward, Michael Bazyler Dec 2007

Foreward, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


In The Footsteps Of Raphael Lemkin, Michael Bazyler Dec 2006

In The Footsteps Of Raphael Lemkin, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Contemporary Legal Lessons From The Holocaust, Michael Bazyler Dec 2006

Contemporary Legal Lessons From The Holocaust, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

Sixty years after the Nuremberg Trials, the "Nuremberg legacy" is part of modern international law. An important aim of the Western judges and prosecutors at Nuremberg was to spotlight the wholesale corruption of the German legal system during the Nazi period. At the "Justice Trial" in Nuremberg, the defendants argued that their actions conformed with German law. Although this defense was rejected, legal scholars still grapple with the jurisprudential conundrum that the Holocaust could simultaneously have been both legal and criminal. The failure of German legal actors to oppose the Nazi transformation of German law into legal barbarism has implications …


The Role Of The Soviet Union At The International Military Tribunal At Nuremberg, Michael Bazyler Dec 2005

The Role Of The Soviet Union At The International Military Tribunal At Nuremberg, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Holocaust Restitution: Perpectives On The Litigation And Its Legacy, Michael Bazyler, Roger Alford Dec 2005

Holocaust Restitution: Perpectives On The Litigation And Its Legacy, Michael Bazyler, Roger Alford

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Holocaust Justice: The Battle For Restitution In America's Courts, Michael Bazyler Mar 2005

Holocaust Justice: The Battle For Restitution In America's Courts, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


The Gray Zones Of Holocaust Restitution: American Justice And Holocaust Morality, Michael Bazyler Dec 2004

The Gray Zones Of Holocaust Restitution: American Justice And Holocaust Morality, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


The Holocaust On Trial: David Irving Vs. Penguin Books Ltd And Deborah Lipstadt, Michael Bazyler Dec 2004

The Holocaust On Trial: David Irving Vs. Penguin Books Ltd And Deborah Lipstadt, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Suing Hitler's Willing Business Partners: American Justice And Holocaust Morality, Michael Bazyler Dec 2003

Suing Hitler's Willing Business Partners: American Justice And Holocaust Morality, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

The Holocaust restitution lawsuits, filed mostly as class actions in American courts in the latter half of the 1990s, yielded billions of dollars in settlements for Holocaust survivors and their heirs. The American lawsuits, and the concomitant political campaign by American Jewish leaders and American government officials, also unearthed valuable historical data about the financial crimes of the Nazis and their cohorts during WW II. This post-Holocaust restitution movement, while viewed as a success, nevertheless created troubling moral issues, and this article focuses on five of them. First, does the demand for financial restitution demean the memory of the Holocaust? …


Lex Americana: Holocaust Litigation In American Courts As A Model For Remedial Action For Genocie And Other Human Massive Rights Abuses, Michael Bazyler Dec 2003

Lex Americana: Holocaust Litigation In American Courts As A Model For Remedial Action For Genocie And Other Human Massive Rights Abuses, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


What Can Be Done About Genocide: American Civil Justice As A Model For Remedial Action, Michael Bazyler Dec 2001

What Can Be Done About Genocide: American Civil Justice As A Model For Remedial Action, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


The Holocaust Restitution Movement In Comparative Perspective, Michael Bazyler Dec 2001

The Holocaust Restitution Movement In Comparative Perspective, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Www.Swissbankclaims.Com: The Legality And Morality Of The Holocaust-Era Restitution Settlement With The Swiss Banks, Michael Bazyler Dec 2000

Www.Swissbankclaims.Com: The Legality And Morality Of The Holocaust-Era Restitution Settlement With The Swiss Banks, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Holocaust Restitution In The United States: A Search Of Justice, Michael Bazyler Dec 2000

Holocaust Restitution In The United States: A Search Of Justice, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Nuremberg In America: Litigating The Holocaust In United States Courts, Michael Bazyler Dec 1999

Nuremberg In America: Litigating The Holocaust In United States Courts, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

A comprehensive analysis of lawsuits filed in U.S. courts arising out of theft of assets from Jews during World War II.


Litigating The Holocaust, Michael Bazyler Dec 1998

Litigating The Holocaust, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Reexamining The Doctrine Of Humanitarian Intervention In Light Of The Atrocities In Kampuchea And Ethiopia, Michael Bazyler Dec 1986

Reexamining The Doctrine Of Humanitarian Intervention In Light Of The Atrocities In Kampuchea And Ethiopia, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Abolishing The Act Of State Doctrine, Michael Bazyler Dec 1985

Abolishing The Act Of State Doctrine, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Litigating The International Law Of Human Rights In The United States Courts: Siderman V. Republic Of Argentina, Michael Bazyler Dec 1984

Litigating The International Law Of Human Rights In The United States Courts: Siderman V. Republic Of Argentina, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.


Litigating The International Law Of Human Rights: A 'How To' Approach, Michael Bazyler Dec 1984

Litigating The International Law Of Human Rights: A 'How To' Approach, Michael Bazyler

Michael Bazyler

No abstract provided.