Volume 6, No. The first Holocaust Claims Restitution Clinic at an American law school began at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in January. Competitively selected students provide pro bono legal work to various agencies investigating and pursuing claims made by victims of the Holocaust. Students are placed with the Holocaust Claims Processing Office, agencies, and private attorneys handling insurance and other claims of Holocaust victims.
Students discuss their fieldwork and complete independent research.
Experts in the fields of insurance litigation, Russian trophy art, and slave labor issues are scheduled as guest lecturers. The number of students wishing to participate shows there is enormous interest. In the 1980s, she taught art history at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva College, and Sarah Lawrence College. In 1992, when Professor Roussin heard a talk at the Association of the Bar of the City of NY on recovering cultural property, she decided to go to law school. After graduating from Cardozo in 1996, she became an associate at Herrick, Feinstein, where she worked on cultural property issues until her appointment to the staff of the commission.