Law Day 2017
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Law Day 2017

October 27, 2017

October 27th, 2017–

Last Wednesday, October 25th, the Virginia Holocaust Museum hosted the annual Rule of Law Day Awards. One of the central lessons of the Holocaust focuses on the centrality of the Rule of Law in the creation and maintenance of civil societies. To safeguard that belief, the Nuremberg Courtroom Committee of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in tandem with the Virginia Law Foundation established an annual program to honor individuals whose life and work emulate the highest ideals enshrined in the principals that established the Nuremberg Military Tribunal (1945–46) and later the International Court of Justice.

U.S. Circuit Judge- Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, J. Harvie Wilkinson, III  received the  2017 Rule of Law Award and Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice, Donald Lemons, received the Civility in the Law Award, the first award of this type given during a Rule of Law Day.

Below you can watch  J. Harvie Wilkinson, III's acceptance speech Historical Memory and the Rule of Law below. Click here to download the transcript of Wilkinson's speech.

Below you can watch  Judge Donald Lemons acceptance speech.

Special thanks to the generosity and support of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Weinberg, The Virginia Law Foundation, and the Virginia Holocaust Museum Nuremberg Courtroom Committee for making this day possible.