Bernard D. Meltzer: Nuremberg Prosecutor
Bernard D. Meltzer |
Mr. Meltzer, a University of Chicago and Harvard Law School graduate, is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of "The Nuremberg Trial: A Prosecutor's Perspective," in the Journal of Genocide Research.
He was special assistant to the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1938 to 1940 and joined the Chicago firm of Mayer, Austrian and Platt in 1940. He served as legal consultant to the National Defense Commission until 1941 when he was named Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Acting Head of Foreign Funds Control Division for the Department of State.
A member of the United States Naval Reserve, Mr. Meltzer served as Assistant Trial Counsel, United States Prosecution Staff, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg. He is the author of several article and books including "Labor Law; Cases, Materials and Problems" and has served as Hearing Commissioner for the National Production Authority; Special Master, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; Presidential Task Force Member fro the Governor's Commission on Labor Management Policy for Illinois Public Employees, and as a consultant to the United States Department of Labor. In addition, Mr. Meltzer chaired the Cook County Hospital Committee and was a member of the Illinois Civil Service Commission.
Nuremberg prosecutor Bernard Meltzer Dies
The Robert H. Jackson Center mourns the death of Nuremberg prosecutor Bernard Meltzer. Mr. Meltzer died January 4, 2007, at his Chicago home. He was the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School.
Mr. Meltzer was at the Jackson Center in November 2001 as part of a four-member panel to discuss personal memories of Jackson, the historical significance of the Nuremberg trials, and the principal surviving Nazis who were prosecuted.
His essay “Robert H. Jackson: Nuremberg’s Architect and Advocate” was published in the Fall 2004 issue of the Albany Law Review.
See University of Chicago Law School Obituary and Professor John Q. Barrett’s essay, “Bernard D. Meltzer (1914-2007), Nuremberg prosecutor,” in his Archive of Jackson Email List postings.