British Historical Studies Colloquium

at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies

Modern Europe Colloquium | Legal Realism after Nuremberg: Raphael Lemkin, Robert Jackson, and the Transatlantic Legal Imagination

Event time: 
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Humanities Quadrangle (), 107 See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

The Modern Europe Colloquium presents James Loeffler, Felix Posen Professor in Modern Jewish History,
Johns Hopkins University, on “Legal Realism after Nuremberg: Raphael Lemkin, Robert Jackson, and the Transatlantic Legal Imagination”
Location: HQ (Humanities Quadrangle), Rm 107, 320 York St.

The Modern Europe Colloquium is generously sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center; Modern Jewish History Colloquium; and the Yale Global History Seminar

Bio: James Loeffler is Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2018), The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century (2019), and the forthcoming Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and Free Speech in Modern America. He curates The Lemkin Project: A Digital Archive of Law, Literature and Global Thought.