The project conducted research with international cooperation partners on the development and effects of compensation law related to the Holocaust as part of a summer school. It also generated options for future practices of dealing with the past.
The Chair of Public Law and International Law at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen organized under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn an international summer school in cooperation with Reichmann University in Herzliya, Israel. A critical legal approach with elements of legal history and comparative law, combined with an interdisciplinary perspective including Transitional Justice research enabled the total of 25 German, Israeli and Colombian students of the Summer School to reflect critically on the instruments and measures created. The course material built on theoretical and practical, political and academic debates. Additional online meetings as well as an international conference ensured a continuous exchange between students, lecturers and relevant actors from academia, politics and civil society. The inclusion of the victims' perspective played an elementary role in all phases of the project.
The unique characteristic of this project was the integration of political, compensation-oriented approaches to coping with the consequences of the Holocaust into the curriculum of the Summer School, which will be based on innovative teaching formats. All project participants and actors were given the opportunity to successively publish academic papers on the topic. A final publication complemented the sustainable transfer of knowledge. Podcast episodes and a working paper on the topic were produced.
Project leaders:
Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn und Dr. Ayşe-Martina Böhringer, Akad. Rätin a.Z., Professur für Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Cooperation partners:
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University
Funding country: Germany
Duration: 01.08.2022 until 31.01.2024
