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| Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:00 AM PDT  At the IntLawGrrls-sponsored "Women and International Criminal Law" roundtable this Friday, I'll have the privilege to hear comments on the latest of my research regarding women who played roles in the Allies' Trial of the Major War Criminals, as well as subsequent trials that the United States held after World War II at Nuremberg, Germany.The research owes much to IntLawGrrls' alumna Diane Orentlicher, now Deputy, Office of War Crimes Issues, at the U.S. Department of State. She dedicated her work on the blog to "Beatrice," the presumed name of an unremembered woman who prosecuted defendants at Nuremberg. Eventually, Diane determined that any number of women might have been "Beatrice." The most likely candidate was "Ceil" Goetz (above right); the quest for her and her sisters at Nuremberg first was explored in my "Women at Nuremberg" series of blog posts. My roundtable essay, Cecelia Goetz, Woman at Nuremberg, tells more about Goetz, an American woman who turned 30 at Nuremberg. Included are not only details on how and why she became a prosecutor in the Krupp trial, but also a life story marked by many "first woman" chapters -- on the law review at New York University School of Law, at the U.S. Department of Justice, and, after Nuremberg, in the federal judiciary. This essay follows upon another overview, "Portraits of Woman at Nuremberg," published recently in Proceedings of the Third International Humanitarian Law Dialogs (Elizabeth Andersen & David M. Crane eds., 2010). "Portraits" places women at the trials within the context of social developments during the post-World War II era. Mentioned are women who  were defendants, journalists, or witnesses; however, the focus is on women, mostly Americans, who served as prosecutors at Nuremberg. Among the latter was Sadie Arbuthnot, depicted at left in a photo recently discovered in Harvard Library's digital trove.Later a judge in the United States' court system in Germany and after marriage a lawyer at NASA, Arbuthnot too was a woman at Nuremberg. More to come.  |
| Work On! Comparative works in progress Posted: 26 Oct 2010 02:00 AM PDT  (Work On! is an occasional item about workshops, roundtables, and other fora that do not necessarily include publication)Papers on comparative law once again are being sought for presentation at the annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop, to be held February 11 and 12, 2010, at Yale Law School (logo below left) in New Haven, Connecticut. Organized by IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Jacqueline Ross and our colleagues Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton) and James Q. Whitman (Yale), the workshop, cosponsored by the American Society of Comparative Law, presents an opportunity for comparative law scholars to engage in sustained and substantive discussion, by up to 20 comparative law  scholars, of up to 6 scholarly projects.Deadline for electronic submissions, to be sent to Professor Whitman at james.whitman@yale.edu, is next Monday, November 1, 2010.  |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:04 AM PDT  On this day in ...... 1986, the government of South Africa threw out of the country Swiss nationals who were working for the International Committee of the Red Cross. The move came a day after South African delegates had been expelled from an ICRC conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The New York Times commented that South African had been kicked out of the ICRC meeting in an effort "to protest apartheid." But it speculated that the vote "could have the unintended effect of hurting opponents of apartheid," given that the workers ordered to leave had been visiting anti-apartheid campaigners "jailed for such crimes as treason and terrorism," among them "the black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela." (credit for photo of Mandela's cell at the prison on Robben Island, where the future South African President was incarcerated from 1964 to 1982.) The following month, South Africa reversed the expulsion order. (Prior October 26 posts are here, here, and here.)  |
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