Michael Bazyler is professor of law and the 1939 Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University. He is holder of previous fellowships at Harvard Law School and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In fall 2006, he was a Research Fellow at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Israel) and the holder of the Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Chair for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism and the Holocaust. Before joining Chapman in 2008, he was a professor for 25 years at Whittier Law School. He received his B.A. from UCLA and his JD from USC.
Professor Bazyler is the author of seven books and more than two dozen law review articles, book chapters and essays on subjects covering Law and the Holocaust and restitution following genocide and other mass atrocities. His book, Holocaust, Genocide and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World (Oxford University Press) is a winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award. His writings have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, and he has testified in Congress on the subject of Holocaust restitution.
Dina Gold is the author of “Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18, Berlin.” She has spoken in the UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand about her book, and toured with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum speaking about restitution.
After graduating from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, she began her career as a financial journalist on the Investors’ Chronicle. She then joined the BBC, where she worked as an investigative journalist on radio and television, subsequently becoming a BBC Ombudsman. In 2008 Dina moved from London to Washington DC. Her writing has been featured in B’nai B’rith magazine, Moment, Washington Jewish Week and the Times of Israel. She is a Board member of the Edlavitch DCJCC.
Phillip Weiner is a Massachusetts attorney, who served as a career Prosecutor from 1980 to 2000. From 2001, he began working internationally, serving for 6 years as a War Crimes Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (Den Haag, Netherlands). He returned to the United States as a Visiting Law Professor at Boston College Law School where he taught Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure.
From 2008 to 2012, he served as an International Judge at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina being assigned to the War Crimes Chamber. His cases involved allegations of War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and Genocide.
Phillip Weiner then served at the War Crimes Court in Cambodia where he oversaw investigations relating to the Khmer Rouge regime. Before leaving that Kingdom, he was “Knighted” for his efforts in training Cambodia’s judges, attorneys and police officers. He continues to conduct training programs and has lectured on four continents.
