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Sylvia and Stanley Leven CLE Program for Attorneys

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Gratz CLE Series
Spring 2010
Friday, April 16 at Gratz College
 IBM and the Holocaust: Legal and
Ethical Implications
 Following the Trail to Dead City

Thursday, April 22 on the Main Line

 Religion and the Law
 Biblical Jurisprudence

Ethics credit available!

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Courses
Friday, April 16
Gratz College 7605 Old York Road
Melrose Park, PA 19027
IBM and the Holocaust:
Legal and Ethical Implications
Mr. Edwin Black
9:00 am – 12:30 pm
As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest
and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create
enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification
and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections
of the 1940s, all for the sake of profit. Mr. Black will
review the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the
Third Reich as well as the structured deniability of oral
agreements, undated letters, and Geneva intermediaries.
This was undertaken as the newspapers blazed with
accounts of persecution and destruction. Mr. Black will
then broaden his discussion on corporate complicity in the
Holocaust to the Ford Motor Company, General Motors,
Carnegie and Rockefeller.
One (1) ethics and two (2) substantive credits: $100
Breakfast included; dietary laws observed.
Doors open at 8:30 am; course starts promptly at 9:00 am.
Speaker’s publications available for purchase and signing.
Following the Trail to
Dead City
Raymond J. Dowd, Esquire
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
This course presents the intriguing story of Egon Schiele’s
painting, Dead City, after it was stolen by the Nazis and
legal efforts to bring it back into the Grunbaum family.
Mr. Dowd will discuss how Fritz Grunbaum’s art
collection surfaced in Switzerland in 1956 under disputed
circumstances and was later found in the Leopold and
Albertina museums in Austria. In 1998, District Attorney
Robert Morgenthau seized Dead City (along with Portrait
of Wally) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
and unleashed an international debate over what countries
should be doing to return art to Jewish heirs. Mr. Dowd
will underscore the role of the Swiss in laundering Nazi-
looted art; the response of the Austrian government,
which has been somewhat less than cooperative; and the
new commission the U.S. may establish to assist Holocaust
victims and their heirs. Mr. Dowd has spoken on this
topic at the Jewish Museum in Berlin and at Yad Vashem
in Jerusalem. A terrific companion to last year’s popular
course on “Reclaiming Nazi Looted Art.”
Three (3) substantive credits: $100
Discount for full day: $185
Lunch included for participants who attend both classes.
Thursday, April 22
Hosted by Beth Am Israel
1301 Hagys Ford Road Penn Valley, PA 19072
Religion and the Law
Professor Perry Dane
9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Discussions about church and state often fall into the same
old tired debates between left and right with which we
are all familiar. But the secular state’s effort to make sense
of religion and understand its place in law and society is
much more fraught, fascinating, and often paradoxical than
the usual arguments even begin to allow. This course will
try to look at issues of religion and law with fresh eyes. It
will examine the religious arguments for strict separation
and the secular religious arguments for more religious
involvement in the public square. It will take a glance at
how a society with an official established church, Great
Britain, grapples with questions of church and state. And,
it will examine three specific and very different problems
that illustrate the difficulties and paradoxes of religion and
law: (1) Why do rabbis (and ministers and priests) get a
special tax break on their housing expenses? (2) What do
we do about Christmas? (3) What, exactly, is the religious
stake in the debate over civil same-sex marriages?
Three (3) substantive credits: $100
Breakfast included; dietary laws observed.
Doors open at 8:30 am; course starts promptly at 9:00 am
Biblical Jurisprudence
Professor George Fletcher
1:00 – 4:30 pm
This is a course on the jurisprudential issues that arise in
Biblical narrative. By reading selective passages in Genesis,
we can learn the meaning of legal positivism and of trans-
positive norms, sometimes called natural law. We also
come to grips with the nature of guilt, collective guilt, and
transmission of guilt across generations. In Exodus, we are
exposed to the concept of covenant; and, in Leviticus, the
concept of the Korban (offering) turns out to have rich
jurisprudential overtones.
One (1) ethics and two (2) substantive credits: $100
Discount for full day: $185
Lunch included for participants who attend both classes.
Gratz College CLE is now
Online!
If you have an April deadline but can’t attend the live
courses, visit www.gratzcollege.edu/onlinecle and look for
April specials.
Gratz College is an accredited online CLE provider.
PA CLE allows up to four online credits per year.
This program is made possible by the financial support of
Barbara & Edward Zinbarg.
Edwin Black
is the New York Times
bestselling and international
investigative
author of
69 award-
winning
editions in
14 languages
in 61
countries, as
well as scores of newspaper
and magazine articles in the
leading publications of the
United States, Europe and
Israel. With a million books
in print, his work focuses on
genocide and hate, corporate
criminality and corruption,
governmental misconduct,
academic fraud, philanthropy
abuse, oil addiction,
alternative energy and
historical investigation.
Mr. Black has been
interviewed on hundreds of
network broadcasts from
Oprah, the Today Show,
CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports
and NBC Dateline in the US
to the leading networks of
Europe and Latin America.
His speaking tours include
hundreds of events in dozens
of cities each year, appearing
at prestigious venues from
the Library of Congress in
Washington to the Simon
Wiesenthal Institute in Los
Angeles in America, and
in Europe from London’s
British War Museum and
Amsterdam’s Institute for
War Documentation to
Munich’s Carl Orff Hall. He is
the editor of The Cutting Edge
News, which receives more
than 1.5 million visits monthly.
Raymond J. Dowd
is a partner in Dunnington
Bartholow & Miller LLP in
New York
City where
he is a
member
of the
corporate,
intellectual
property,
litigation and arbitration,
and art law practice groups.
He has broad commercial
litigation experience in both
federal and state trial and
appellate courts. Mr. Dowd
has counseled art owners
and dealers regarding
transactional representation,
UCC filings, tracking and
recovering stolen art, and
handling disputes involving
provenance, authenticity and
theft. Among Mr. Dowd’s
notable cases is his successful
petition for removal of the
co-executors of American
Tobacco heiress Doris
Duke’s estate, upholding
the first honorary pet trust
challenged in New York
history and obtaining a
$100,000 trust for heiress
Doris Duke’s dogs. Dowd is
a member of the Federal Bar
Association; vice president
for the Second Circuit (2008–
present); editorial board
member of Federal Lawyer
Magazine; and member of
the Copyright Society of the
USA. He received a BA in
international studies from
Manhattan College and a JD
from Fordham University
School of Law, where he was
articles editor of the Fordham
International Law Journal.
Mr. Dowd is fluent in French
and Italian.
Perry Dane is Professor
of Law at the Rutgers School
of Law, Camden, and is also
currently
Faculty
Affiliate of
the Rutgers
Institute
for Law and
Philosophy.
He was
previously on the faculty
of the Yale Law School
and served as a law clerk
to William J. Brennan, Jr.,
Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
Professor Dane is a graduate
of Yale College and the Yale
Law School. His research and
teaching interests include
religion and the law, the
jurisprudence of Jewish law,
legal pluralism, the Middle
East peace process, the
debate on same-sex marriage,
American Indian law, and
the Canadian legal system.
In 2008, he taught a course
on “Religion and the State in
Cross-National Perspective”
as a visiting professor at
the University of Western
Ontario. He has also been
a member of the national
seminar of the Project on
Religious Institutions at Yale
University’s Program on
Non-Profit Organizations, a
guest of the Shalom Hartman
Institute in Israel, and a
participant in a variety of
scholarly conferences around
the nation and the world. In
2010-11, Professor Dane will
be a full-time resident fellow
at the Tikvah Center for Law
& Jewish Civilization at New
York University Law School.
George P. Fletcher
is Cardozo Professor of
Jurisprudence at Columbia
Law School.
He is
regarded
as one of
the leading
scholars in
the U.S. in
the fields
of torts and criminal law,
particularly comparative and
international criminal law.
He is the author of over 150
law review articles, including
“Fairness and Utility in Tort
Theory,” 85 Harvard Law
Review 537 (1972), one of
the most cited articles of all
time. His numerous books
include: Rethinking Criminal
Law; The Grammar of Criminal
Law: American, Comparative,
and International; and A Crime
of Self-Defense: Bernhard
Goetz and the Law on Trial.
Professor Fletcher’s work is
widely read and discussed all
over Europe, Latin America,
and Israel. He has received
foundation awards in the U.S.
(Guggenheim, Ford, ACLS,
Rockefeller), and was the first
foreign scholar to receive the
prestigious Wissenschaftspreis
[Prize for Scholarship] from
the German Humboldt
Foundation. Professor
Fletcher has lectured and
done media spots in Russian,
French, German, Hebrew,
Spanish, Hungarian and Italian.
He has published dozens
of op-ed pieces and longer
articles in The New York Times,
The Washington Post, and
The New Republic. Professor
Fletcher earned his JD and
MCL at the University of
Chicago.

Gratz College and CLE, Sylvia and Stanley Leven

it’s a perfect match!
As the oldest independent college of Jewish studies in North
America, Gratz is committed to promoting the tradition of
ongoing Jewish learning as well as meeting the needs of Jewish
professionals. Judaism is a culture based on Halacha (law). Its
sacred texts contain ordinances for nearly every facet of life. This is
an opportunity to study one of the earliest bodies of law known to
humanity and compare it to the modern American justice system.
The Sylvia and Stanley Leven Continuing Legal Education series is
dedicated to exploring the convergences and differences between
American and Jewish law. As a drafter of
Connecticut’s most recent constitution,
Stanley Leven, Esq., z’’l, personified the
communally active legal scholar. Sylvia
Leven has devoted herself to teaching the
young, political activity and generously supporting numerous causes .
 Registration Form
Questions?
Call Mindy Blechman at 215–635–7300 x 154
or email mblechman@gratz.edu
Please check course(s) you wish to attend and
note if you need CLE credit or prefer to audit.
IBM and the Holocaust: Legal and Ethical
Implications
Friday, April 16 at Gratz College
9:00 am – 12:30 am (breakfast served; dietary laws
observed)
One (1) ethics and two (2) substantive credits: $100
Auditors: $36, if space allows
Registration deadline: April 2 or when class fills
Following the Trail to Dead City
Friday, April 16 at Gratz College
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Three (3) substantive credits: $100
Auditors: $36, if space allows
Discounted Rate all day (6 credits) includes breakfast
& lunch (dietary laws observed): $185
Registration deadline: April 2 or when class fills
Religion and the Law
Thursday, April 22 at Beth Am Israel on the Main Line
9:00 am – 12:30 pm (breakfast served; dietary laws
observed)
Three (3) substantive credits: $100
Auditors: $36, if space allows
Registration deadline: April 9 or when class fills
Biblical Jurisprudence
Thursday, April 22 at Beth Am Israel on the Main Line
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
One (1) ethics and two (2) substantive credits: $100
Auditors: $36, if space allows
Discounted Rate all day (6 credits) includes breakfast
& lunch (dietary laws observed): $185
Registration deadline: April 9 or when class fills
Additional Discounts
All four courses (12 credits): $350
Register online for single classes only at
www.gratzcollege.edu/cle. Discounts not
available online.
Register by phone with a credit card: Mindy Blechman:
(215) 635-7300, x 154 or fax: 215-635-7399
Mail : Gratz College CLE
7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park, PA 19027
Attn: Mindy
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Address
City State Zip
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Publications by Edwin Black
Available for advanced purchase to be delivered at course.
Author will be available for book signing after the course.
Book purchase is optional. Required course materials are provided free of
charge by Gratz College at each program.

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advanced purchase.
Cancellations and Refunds Other Edwin Black titles
will also be available on
Cancellations must be received in advance of the program the day of the course.
to receive a refund. Please call, fax or email Mindy
Blechman if you cannot attend the course for any reason.
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contacted after the day of the course.