Kristen Nelson, Partner
☎ CONTACT
E: knelson@hechtpartners.com
T: (646) 490-2408
PRACTICE AREAS
Kristen Nelson is a litigator with extensive experience in domestic and international business litigation and atrocities and asset recovery.
Prior to joining Hecht Partners, Kristen was the Project Manager and Lead Researcher on a multi-year Holocaust real property restitution study commissioned by the Prague-based European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI), which was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 as Searching for Justice after the Holocaust: Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution.
She was also of counsel to a California concierge litigation practice and was Assistant Managing Editor of the European Court of Human Rights module for Oxford Reports on International Law.
Kristen is the author of a number of legal articles and book chapters relating to post-atrocity property restitution.
Kristen has a Master of Laws in Human Rights from the University of Hong Kong, with distinction, a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law and B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in International Studies.
Thought Leadership
Co-author with Michael Bazyler, Michael Scott Bryant, and Sermid Al-Sarraf, Comparative Law: Global Legal Traditions, Carolina Academic Press, August 2021.
Benjamin B. Ferencz with Michael Bazyler and Kristen Nelson, “Seeking Redress for Hitler’s Victims: Personal Remembrances” in Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, Second Edition, Carla Ferstman and Mariana Goetz, eds., Brill, 2020.
Co-author with Michael J. Bazyler, Kathryn Lee Boyd, and Rajika Shah, “Guided by the Terezin Declaration: A Review of Restitution of Stolen Jewish Property After the Holocaust” in Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, Second Edition, Carla Ferstman and Mariana Goetz, eds., Brill, 2019.
Co-author with Michael J. Bazyler, Kathryn Lee Boyd, and Rajika L. Shah, Searching for Justice After the Holocaust: Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Author, The Biggest Stolen House on the (Eastern) Bloc: Lessons From the Terezin Declaration to Poland for Enacting Holocaust Property Restitution Legislation, Loy. L.A. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 41(3), December 2018.
Co-author with Michael Bazyler, “Holocaust Property Theft and Restitution: The Right to an Effective Remedy under Article 8 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” in Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Its Continuing Relevance, Michael Newman and Carla Ferstman, eds., Routledge, 2018.
Co-author with Kathryn Lee Boyd, Report from Jerusalem: The Continuing Struggle for Holocaust Justice, The Jewish Journal, 21 July 2016.
Co-author with Rajika Shah, An Immovable Property Restitution Legislation Database: ESLI’s Initiative to Bring Present and Future Meaning to the Terezin Declaration Commitments, Limes Plus – Nationalization, Confiscation, Restitution, 2015.
Co-author with K. Lee Boyd, Rajika L. Shah, Negotiating the Deal: Strategies to Avoid Costly Disputes, 17 Gaming Law Review and Economics 335, 2013.
BAR ADMISSIONS
State of California
State of Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
EDUCATION
LL.M., University of Hong Kong, Human Rights
J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis