ADL co-sponsored a program for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit titled Where was the Rule of Law? Where were the Ethics? at Southwestern School of Law on September 11. The MCLE program related to the LAWYERS WITHOUT RIGHTS: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich exhibit currently on view at the law school. The exhibit, created by the German Federal Bar and shown in over 80 cities, depicts how Jewish lawyers and jurists were barred from German courts beginning in 1933, and how individual rights and the rule of law were obliterated during the Nazi era.
California Court of Appeal Associate Justice Richard D. Fybel spoke along with two members of ADL’s Executive Committee Judge Bruce J. Einhorn (ret.) and Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust President E. Randol Schoenberg. Their remarks focused on the role of lawyers during the Third Reich, the trials following World War II and the legal battle to regain art stolen by the Nazis, respectively.