Tuesday, November 4 | 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Heritage Room, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th Floor
In-person (lunch provided) & Online
 

Eighty years after the Nuremberg Trials, Professor Christoph Safferling traces their enduring influence on international criminal law, the evolution of legal accountability for state crimes, and states’ shifting relationship to this defining moment in legal history.

About this Event

After the Second World War, the victorious Allied powers decided to hold a trial against the major Nazi War criminals. For the first time in history, individuals were held accountable for state criminality. Soon after the trial the international community accepted the Nuremberg Principles as principles of international law. Yet, Germany was very skeptical about the Nuremberg trial. Only after the fall of the Berlin Wall has this attitude changed. The lecture seeks to explain this development and ask where we stand today, 80 years after Nuremberg.

About the Speaker

Professor Christoph Safferling is Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and International Law at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Director of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy. He is a member of the International Academic Commission at the German Federal Ministry of Justice for the Critical Study of the National Socialist Past.

His fields of research include cybercrime, IT-forensics, international criminal procedural law, mental elements of crime, and the history of international criminal law.

For a report on the event, please consult the November 6, 2025 issue of the Daily Campus.