Jonathan Bush

Jonathan Bush, a lawyer and author who has written widely on international law, legal history, and the Holocaust, is a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on Nuremberg and war crimes trials and on human rights and Holocaust reparations. From 1996 to 1997 he was a Ruth Meltzer Senior Fellow at the Museum and served as the Museum’s founding general counsel, along with Neil R. Ellis, from 1983 to 1986. A staff prosecutor from 1980 to 1983 at the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which pursued and prosecuted Nazi war criminals, he holds degrees from Princeton, Oxford, and Yale. Currently he is writing a biography of Telford Taylor, the Nuremberg war-crimes prosecutor.