PRESS RELEASE
Clark University
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
University Communications
Tel: 508-793-7635
cel: 508-365-8736

November 5, 2007

Clark University to host International Law expert Nov. 15
Harvard Professor Jens Meierhenrich to discuss concentration camps,
post-genocide justice

WORCESTER, MA- 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.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research
university with 2,100 undergraduate and 900 graduate students. Since its
founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States,
Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the
International Studies Stream and the accelerated BA/MA programs with the
fifth year tuition-free for eligible students. The University is
featured in Loren Pope’s book, "Colleges That Change Lives."
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