Donna Artz

Donna Artz

Donna Artz (1954 – November 15, 2008) was an American legal scholar.

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Education

Arzt earned a B.A. degree at Brandeis University, a J.D. degree at Harvard Law School, and an LL.M. degree at Columbia Law School. From 1988 until her death she was Professor of Law in the Syracuse University College of Law, and Dean's Distinguished Research Scholar. She died November 15, 2008 after a long illness.[1]

Career

Before teaching at Syracuse, Arzt practiced public interest law in Boston and was an assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts specializing in civil rights and regulation of charitable solicitation. Artz published numerous articles on human rights in the Soviet Union and the Middle East. She served as a consultant to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Human Rights Watch, and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on population transfer.

Artz was an activist in the movement to free Soviet Jewry. She founded the Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center, which was an affiliate of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry. In that role, she documented the USSR's violation of its own and international law. She also prepared many legal briefs on behalf of Refuseniks and Prisoners of Zion. These legal briefs were given to the Soviets via US Congressmen as well as to the families of the Refuseniks and POZ's, who often could not obtain legal representation.[2]

She served as director of the Center for Global Law and Practice at the Syracuse University College of Law.

Artz founded and directed the Lockerbie Trial Families Project, which informed the families of the 270 victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, about developments in the Lockerbie criminal trial as the trial took place in a Scottish courtroom in the Netherlands.[3][4]

Artz also founded and directed the Sierra Leone Project in which faculty and students at the College of Law assisted the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, established by the United Nations and the country's government at the end of the decade-long Sierra Leone Civil War.

Honors and awards

Artz received the Michael J. Tryson Memorial Award for Excellence and Leadership in the field of human rights law.

Books

References

  1. ^ Professor who worked Lockerbie trial dies, November 18, 2008
  2. ^ A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews, Murray Friedman and Albert D. Chernin, 1999, p. 234
  3. ^ Prosecution Stumbles in "Lockerbie Trial" of Pan Am Flight 103, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 31, 2000
  4. ^ Web site provides information, support to families of Pan Am 103 victims, Monday, May 1, 2000, Wendy S. Loughlin [1]

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