1:30-3:00 pm Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Room 200 Court Yard Building
Art, Film and Letters of the Holocaust
Ann Kirschner - "The Last New Voices: A Case Study of A Survivor's Inheritance"
Professor Gila Naveh - "Film and Fiction About the Holocaust"
Professor Susan Tiefenbrun - " The film The Pianist: On the Curative Role of the Arts During Genocidal War"
Professor Andrea Liss - "Art of the Shoah as Documentation and Post-Witnessing"
Leah Ollman, L.A. Times Art Critic - "Reckoning With the Past (and Future) Through Art"

Associate Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law
President of Law and Humanities Institute
Director, Center for Global Legal Studies
Director, Hofstra International Summer Program in Nice, France

J.D., New York University School of Law
Ph.D., Columbia University, magna cum laude
M.S., University of Wisconsin, magna cum laude

Fluent in French, Russian and Italian, Professor Tiefenbrun brings international experience and scholarship to Thomas Jefferson. In 2003, Professor Tiefenbrun was awarded the French Legion of Honor by Presidential Decree of the French government. From 1991 to the present, she has been an adjunct professor at Hofstra University School of Law, and the Director of the Hofstra/Nice International Law Program. In 1996 she was a visiting professor at University of Nice Law School. Prior to teaching at law school, Professor Tiefenbrun taught at Columbia University graduate school from 1971-1980, at Sarah Lawrence College, and as visiting professor at the University of Michigan. Professor Tiefenbrun has published extensively in the areas of international human rights law, private international law, property law and intellectual property. She has written articles on sex trafficking in women, and edited three books on Law and the Arts , (1999), Legal Ethics (1999) and War Crimes and War Crimes Tribunals (1999). Other areas of scholarly interest include law and literature, contracts and European Union law. She practiced several years as a corporate law associate with Coudert Brothers and is a frequent speaker and presenter at invitational conferences.

Courses include: Business Planning, Securities Regulation, Corporations, International Business Transactions, International Intellectual Property Law

Extension: 1523
E-mail: susant@tjsl.edu

Recent Scholarship
Editor, Law and the Arts (Greenwood, 1999)

Editor, Legal Ethics: Access to Justice (Hofstra Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics Symposium, v. 2, 1999) (with Roy Simon)

Editor, War Crimes and War Crimes Tribunals: Past, Present, and Future (Hofstra Law & Policy Symposium, v. 3, 1999) (with Leon Friedman)

The Domestic and International Impact of the U.S. Victims of Trafficking Protection Act of 2000: Does Law Deter Crime?, ___ CASE WESTERN J. INT’L LAW ___ (forthcoming 2004)

Copyright Infringement, Sex Trafficking, and the Fictional Life of a Geisha, 10 MICH. J. GENDER & L. (forthcoming 2003)

Civil Disobedience and the U.S. Constitution, 32 SOUTHWESTERN U.L. REV. 677 (2003), also forthcoming in French as La Désobeissance Civile et la Constitution des États-Unis, in L’ESPRIT HUMAIN (Dominique Le Gros, ed., Editions Seuil, forthcoming 2003)

A Semiotic Approach to a Legal Definition of Terrorism, 9 INT’L LAW STUDENTS ASS’N J. INT’L & COMP. L. 365 (2003)

The Saga of Susannah – A U.S. Remedy for Sex Trafficking in Women: The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, 2002 UTAH L. REV. 107

Sex Sells But Drugs Don’t Talk: Trafficking of Women Sex Workers and an Economic Solution, 24 T. JEFFERSON L. REV. 161 (2002), reprint forthcoming in WOMEN AND THE LAW (Carol H. Lefcourt, ed., Thomson-West, forthcoming 2003 ed.), updating Sex Sells But Drugs Don’t Talk: Trafficking of Women Sex Workers, 23 T. JEFFERSON L. REV. 199 (2001)

Business and Trade Law, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS, Social Sciences and Humanities: Law, § 6.31.2.2 (UNESCO-Eolss, 2002) (published online, http://www.eolss.net)

The Paradox of International Adjudication: Developments in the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the World Court, and the International Criminal Court, 25 N.C.J. INT’L L. & COMMERCIAL REG. 551 (2000)

Free Trade and Protectionism: The Semiotics of Seattle, 17 ARIZ. J. INT’L & COMP. L. 257 (2000)

A Hermeneutic Methodology and How Pirates Read and Misread the Berne Convention, 17 WIS. INT’L. L.J. 1 (1999)

On Civil Disobedience, Jurisprudence, Feminism and the Law in the Antigones of Sophocles and Anouilh, 11 CARDOZO STUDIES IN L. & LIT. 35 (1999)

The Piracy of Intellectual Property in China and the Former Soviet Union and Its Effects Upon International Trade: A Comparison, 46 BUFF. L. REV. 1 (1998)

The Role of the World Court in Settling International Disputes: A Recent Assessment, 20 LOYOLA REV. OF INT'L & COMP. L. 1 (1997).

The Lie, The Law and La Fontaine's Fables, 25 METAPHORE 109 (1996).

State and Federal Foreign Affairs Power in the United States, in Government Structures in the U.S.A. and the Sovereign States of the Former U.S.S.R. 156 (Greenwood Press, 1996).