Monday, November 7, 201612:15 PM
UCLA School of Law
Room 1447
Los Angeles, CA 90024
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ABOUT THE BOOK
John (Ivan) Demjanjuk was a native Ukrainian who became the subject of the lengthiest and most bizarre criminal case to arise out of the Holocaust. The only person in American history to be twice stripped of his citizenship, Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel, where he was sentenced to death as the sadistic Treblinka guard known as Ivan the Terrible—only to be released when the Israelis realized they had the wrong Ivan. Two decades later, in 2011, a Munich court convicted him as having served as a guard at Sobibor, an equally lethal SS death camp.
Lawrence Douglas covered Demjanjuk’s Munich trial for Harper’s and his recently published book, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, builds on that reportage to show the historic importance of the enormous effort to bring Demjanjuk to justice.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
LAWRENCE DOUGLAS teaches at Amherst College, where he is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought. He earned his J.D. at Yale Law School, his M.A. from Columbia University, his B.A. from Brown University and an honorary M.A. from Amherst College.
Professor Douglas is the author of six books of both non-fiction and fiction. His scholarly books include The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust, a widely acclaimed study of war crimes trials, and The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, published by Princeton University Press in January 2016 and selected by the New York Times as an Editor’s Choice. His novels include The Vices, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in 2011 and The Catastrophist, a Kirkus Best Book, 2006. His articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, and Harper’s.
The recipient of major fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Institute for International Education, and, most recently, the Carnegie Foundation, Douglas has lectured widely and has served as a visiting professor at the University of London and at Humboldt Universität, Berlin.
Cost : Free and Open to the Public
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swrench@international.ucla.edu Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Burkle Center for International Relations, International & Comparative Law Program (ICLP) at UCLA School of Law