Creighton’s Nuremberg Summer Program, “From Nuremberg to The Hague” gives you an opportunity to learn firsthand about the Holocaust in Nuremberg, the Bavarian city that hosted the Nazi war crimes trials after World War II and is considered the birthplace of modern international criminal law. Students from law schools and universities throughout the United States and Germany are welcome to apply for the program
Apply and deposit by March 1.
Do not submit deposit until you have been emailed a NET ID by the N2H Program Coordinator.
You’ll spend a month in Germany and The Netherlands and visit Poland. An integral part of your class experience will be taking field trips. You’ll see the traces of Germany’s Nazi past by visiting former concentration camps, such as Dachau in Germany and Auschwitz in Poland, Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” retreat in the Alps, and by traveling to The Hague, Netherlands, and visit Poland, where war criminals are being prosecuted in the International Criminal Court, the Special Chambers of the Special Court for Kosovo, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. By combining classroom instruction with field trips to actual crime scenes, places of conspiracy and current trials, students are exposed to an unprecedented array of historical and legal experiences.
Your classes will be held at Erlangen University, near the center of Nuremberg’s Old City. You’ll take two, three-credit courses:
The Germany Summer Program is open to Creighton law students, as well as graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students. Non-Creighton students must submit a letter of good standing from their dean along with their application. You’ll receive six credit hours.
Creighton University School of Law’s Nuremberg to The Hague Summer Abroad Program is co-sponsored by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, the Institute for Holocaust Education, the War Crimes Documentation Center, the U.S. National Section of the International Association of Penal Law, and the Staenberg Family Foundation, and is accredited by the ABA.