Law Professor Cathy Mansfield will discuss the Nazi Party's rise to power in Germany in the years preceding the Holocaust, the legislative means by which the party and its leader, Adolph Hitler, took the country from the democratic Weimar Republic to the dictatorship it became, the anti-Jewish Nazi laws at the time, and the Nazi court system.

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ABOUT CATHY LESSER MANSFIELD
Professor Cathy Mansfield is a Senior Instructor in Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Before joining the CWRU Law faculty, she was a Profession of Law at Drake University Law School and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Mansfield teaches a variety of consumer, payments and commercial law courses, and also teaches a course called "Holocaust and the Law." She is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law's Center for National Security and Human Right's Law. She is the composer and librettist of an opera, entitled The Sparks Fly Upward, that follows three German families in Berlin, two Jewish and one Christian, through the Holocaust, and she is founder and Executive Director of The Sparks Fly Upward Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, genocide, and tolerance through presentations of Sparks, and ancillary activities.