Chelsea Rosenthal, New York University School of Law
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The two-week program was initiated at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York, where students had the opportunity to meet holocaust survivors and tour the museum. The participants then proceeded to Berlin, where they examined the activities of members of their given field in Nazi Germany, as a means of examining ethical issues of today. The students then traveled to Poland, where they toured the concentration camps and further considered the modern ethical implications of their given profession.
Law students from six schools were in attendance to focus on the on the themes “Breaching Government Secrecy” and Obedience to Authority.” Rosenthal notes that because FASPE highlights the ‘power of place' the group's discussions on issues “of legal ethics and the Holocaust were” appropriately paired with stops at significant historical sites including the House of the Wannsee Conference, Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Topography of Terror Museum, the concentration camps at Auschwitz, and the Auschwitz Jewish Center.
“We examined legal ethics as applied to Nazi perversions of justice, but also drawing on themes from that context in an effort to illuminate contemporary legal ethics issues,” said Rosenthal. Through the program, students were able to draw comparisons between the Holocaust and current ethical issues, such as the Department of Justice's “torture memos” and the role of the legal field in the confinement of Japanese- Americans during World War II.
Rosenthal says that the experience was an emotional one but also extremely rewarding because it allowed her “the chance to reflect on these issues and experiences with…a perceptive group.”
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