Jayme Herschkopf
Congratulations to Jayme Herschkopf for being selected as the 2011 Holocaust Remembrance Essay Award recipient, an annual international award for the best essay written by a law student on a topic relating to law and the Holocaust. Herschkopf's essay, Cultivating the Legal Professional Through Lessons Learned from Holocaust Commemoration, was selected by an international panel of law and Holocaust scholars, including Professor Ted DeCoste of this Faculty.
Jayme Herschkopf is a 2011 graduate of Yale Law School, where she was student director of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic and executive editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. She was a 2010 Law Student Fellow in FASPE, the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, which led to the writing of her essay. Born and raised in New York City, Jayme graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with an A.B. in Religion and English, and received an M. Litt in Romantic Studies from the University of St. Andrews. She is currently a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
For more than ten years - and in recent years, through the kind generosity of one of its alumni, Mr. Henry Wolfond of Toronto - the Faculty of Law has been honoured to support the Holocaust Remembrance Essay Award, the mission of which is to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust in the legal academy. The Award grew out of the conference "The Holocaust: Art / Politics / Law" which was held at this Faculty in fall 1997. Professor DeCoste, who along with Professor Bernie Schwartz (Faculty of Education, Alberta), organized the Conference, notes that "the Award is the only one of its kind in the English-speaking legal academic world."
To read the essay, click here.
For more information about the Award, please visit: http://www.law.ualberta.ca/currentstudents/financialinformation/holocaust.php