November 5, 2007
Harvard Professor Jens Meierhenrich to discuss concentration camps, post-genocide justice
 Worcester, Mass. - The Clark University Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies presents "Concentration Camps in International Law," a lecture by International Law expert Jens Meierhenrich, on Thurs., Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Tilton Hall, 2nd floor, Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street, Worcester.
Meierhenrich is assistant professor of government and of social studies at Harvard University, and serves as a research associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the largest international research center within Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also visiting associate professor of law at the University of Tokyo.
Professor Meierhenrich will talk about how post-genocide justice poses troubling questions—for lawyers and for the public. He will shed light on judicial responses to crimes perpetrated in some of the most notorious concentration camps of the 20th century, from Bergen-Belsen to Keraterm. His analysis of national and international courts and tribunals spans U.S. military courts to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
A rising star in the field of International Law, professor Meierhenrich recently served as the Carlo Schmid Fellow in Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and, previously, worked with the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Professor Meierhenrich is the author of a series of articles on comparative and international law and politics and is currently working on a monumental trilogy on genocide: The Rationality of Genocide; The Structure of Genocide; and The Culture of Genocide.
The recipient of many prestigious fellowships and awards, professor Meierhenrich has enjoyed the support of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Japan Foundation, the American Bar Foundation, and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
A reception will follow this lecture. For more information, call 508-793-8897.
The mission of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is to educate undergraduate and graduate students about genocide and the Holocaust; to host a lecture series, free of charge and open to the public, to use scholarship to address current problems stemming from the murderous past; and to participate in public discussion about a host of issues ranging from the significance of state-sponsored denial of the Armenian genocide and well-funded denial of the Holocaust to intervention in and prevention of genocidal situations today.
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