Frank Tuerkheimer
Law, 7106 Law Building
Office: 608-262-3093; Law School: 608-262-2240
fmtuerkh@wisc.edu
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2008 / 2009 - Frank Tuerkheimer (BA, Columbia; LLB, New York University Law School) served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York before joining the law faculty in 1970. While on leave from the law faculty, he served as an Associate Watergate Prosecutor and as United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. He has been associated with the law firm of Godfrey and Kahn since 1985. He is co-counsel in representing an inmate on death row in Alabama. Most of his extensive research has been in the areas of Evidence and Criminal Law. A frequent consultant to USA Today on current legal issues, he regularly teaches, “The Holocaust: Facts, Trials, Verdicts and Post-Verdicts” to law students and undergraduate students. He has taught a similar course to law students at the Giessen Law School in Giessen, Germany on three occasions. Frank Tuerkheimer has conducted a lengthy interview of the senior prosecutor in the Eichmann trial which has been distributed to all major Holocaustmuseums and centers in the world and can be found here. He is currently co-authoring a book entitled Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust which describes in detail ten Holocaust trials apart from the main Nuremberg and Eichmann trials. Frank Tuerkheimer was a Visiting Professor of Law at the Cardozo Law School in NYC during the spring semesters, 2003 and 2004 and will be teaching in a similar capacity at the New York Law School in the spring, 2009 semester.
