Professor Amann Takes Part in Panel on Courts and Holocaust

Professor Diane Marie Amann spoke at "How the Courts Failed Germany: Law, Justice, and the Holocaust," cosponsored by the Administrative Office of the Courts, Judicial Council of California and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, held November 5 in Sacramento and November 9 in San Francisco.  Each session was attended by about 60 state trial and appellate judges.  Chairing both sessions was California Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Werdegar.  Judge Ramona Garrett '80 also participated in a panel on November 5.  Professor Amann spoke on the trial of a very few Nazi judges at Nuremberg and subsequent developments with regard to individual criminal accountability and individual protection against human rights violations.

Diane Marie Amann is a Professor of Law and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar, and Director, California International Law Center at King Hall, UC Davis School of Law.