Jewish Canadian SC Justice appointed to Harvard Law chair

Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella, who was born in 1946 to Jewish parents in a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany, has been appointed by Harvard Law School to a chair endowed in the name of Samuel Pisar, a lawyer, memoirist and Holocaust survivor.

Abella, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2004, becoming the court’s first Jewish justice and first refugee to serve on the bench. Abella, 74, will reach the court’s mandatory retirement age in July when she turns 75.