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29 Touro L. Rev. 1 (2012-2013)

handle is hein.journals/touro29 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION: PERSECUTION THROUGH PROSECUTION: REVISITING TOURO LAW CENTER'S CONFERENCE IN PARIS ON THE ALFRED DREYFUS AFFAIR AND THE LEO FRANK TRIAL Rodger D. Citron* In July 2011, Touro Law Center hosted a three-day confe- rence on the Alfred Dreyfus affair and Leo Frank trial in Paris, France. The conference was held at a number of historical sites in Paris-including the tcole Militaire, France's Royal Military Acad- emy; the French Senate; and the Cour de Cassation, the highest court in the French judiciary-and featured many prominent speakers.1 The theme of the conference, developed by the Honorable Sol Wachtler, was persecution through prosecution. Perhaps no case so clearly presents that theme as that of Alfred Dreyfus. The Dreyfus affair began in 1894 when Alfred, a Jewish French officer, was false- ly charged with treason. He was subsequently convicted on the basis of flimsy evidence (including forged documents) in a secret court- Rodger D. Citron is a Professor of Law at Touro Law Center. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. He was a law clerk for the Honorable Thomas N. O'Neill Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He thanks Law- rence Raful, Linda Howard Weissman, and Beth Mobley for their support and assistance in connection with the conference. Among the speakers were Charles Dreyfus, grandson of Alfred Dreyfus; Steven Erlan- ger, Paris bureau chief of The New York Times; Steve Oney, author of AND THE DEAD SHALL RISE: THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN AND THE LYNCHING OF LEO FRANK (2004); Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, Paris representative for the American Jewish Committee (AJC); Franqois Zimeray, French Ambassador for Human Rights; Martine Le Blond-Zola, great granddaugh- ter of Emile Zola; Charles J. Hynes, Brooklyn District Attorney; Bishop Francis Deniau, Bi- shop of Nevers; Theo Klein. founding president of the European Jewish Congress; and Sa- muel Pisar, international lawyer, author, and advocate. The conference was co-sponsored by the AJC, the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) and SciencesPo, and received the high patronage of Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, then President of the French Re- public. SNCF, the French National Railway Corporation, provided generous support for the conference. Vincent Duclert, an associate professor of history at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, provided substantial advice and assistance to the Conference Organizing Committee, which included the Honorable Sol Wachtler, Dean Emeritus Howard Glickstein, Associate Dean Linda Howard Weissman, and Professor Rodger Citron.

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