3:15-5:00 pm Sunday, January l6, 2005 - Congregation Beth Israel
Understanding the Limits of Representations of Catastrophe: The Case of the Holocaust: Panel Discussion
Daniel Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners
Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader
Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham, and Second Hand Smoke
Richard Weisberg, author of Failure of the Word, and Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France
Ed Rothstein, N.Y. Times Critic at Large - "The Role of Literary and Artistic Works on the Holocaust"

3:00 pm Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Concluding Remarks

pioneer of the law and literature movement

Author of Failure of the Word, and Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France

Professor Weisberg is involved in theoretical and litigation-oriented approaches to the subject of his book Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France. He also has pioneered the worldwide "Law and Literature" movement and is the author or The Failure of the Word; When Lawyers Write and Poethics: And Other Strategies of Law and Literature. An editor of the Columbia Law Review, he was associated with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Professor Weisberg was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Society for the Humanities and the Society for the Humanities of Cornell University. From 1979 to 1986, he was president of the Law and Humanities Institute and has been its chair of the law and Humanities Section of the American Association of Law Schools. He has received numerous fellowships, including ones from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1998, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow for his study of the privatization of public discourse. Professor Weisberg is general editor of Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature.

Professor Weisberg is the legal consultant on the Swiss banking crimes, the French banking crimes, and French national railroad crimes cases involving Holocaust victims. He is the world's leading authority on racist laws under the Vichy regime during World War II.