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Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center has the following developments to report:
• Appointments: The Law Center made several new significant administrative and faculty appointments recently. Lauren Chite was named assistant dean for student services. Previously she had been director of student affairs at Hofstra School of Law. Brett Gilbert was named assistant dean for career services. He had been associate director of the career center at Brooklyn Law School. Additionally, George Justice was appointed assistant dean for admissions. He held a similar position at the University of Tulsa School of Law before joining Touro.
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The law school also added several faculty members. Jack Graves was named
assistant professor of law. He previously taught at Syracuse University School of Law and Stetson University School of Law. Sharon Pocock was named associate professor of legal process. Previously she had been an associate at the Washington, D.C., firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Meredith Miller was named assistant professor of law. Prior to joining Touro she had been a litigation associate at Proskauer Rose in New York.
• Nuremberg Presentation: Assistant Professor Rodger Citron presented a paper on "The Nuremberg Trials and American Jurisprudence: The Decline of Legal Realism, The Revival of Natural Law, and the Development of Legal Process Theory" as part of a panel on "The Influence of the Nuremberg Trial on United States Justice," with Gwynne Skinner, visiting clinical professor of law, Seattle University School of Law (on "The Nuremberg Precedents and Their Impact on Civil Claims of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in U.S. Courts under the Alien Tort Statute" ) and Benjamin Davis, associate professor of law, University of Toledo College of Law (on "Refluat Stercus or Making 'Manure' Roll Uphill: the Problem of Prosecuting High-Level U.S. Civilian Authority and Military Generals in U.S. Domestic Courts for Violations of International Humanitarian and/or International Criminal Law.”)
The presentation was part of "The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today: An Interdisciplinary Conference," a three day conference at Bowling Green State University. For more about the conference see http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/history/nuremberg/agenda.htm.
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