Benjamin Sevart 3L is one of 14 fellows selected for this year’s Law Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). The 2025 fellowship will take place in Germany and Poland over the course of two weeks this summer.

“The professional identity development that FASPE facilitates is critical to becoming the kind of lawyer, and the kind of person, I hope to be,” said Sevart of the upcoming fellowship trip.

Now in its 15th year of operation, FASPE annually grants 80 to 90 fellowships to graduate students and early-career professionals in the fields of law, business, clergy, design and technology, journalism and medicine. Sevart joins a diverse group of over 80 FASPE fellows across all six programs who were selected through a competitive process that drew applicants from across the world.

“I look forward to meeting the other fellows, studying the role of lawyers in the Holocaust, and reasoning together about legal ethics issues facing lawyers today,” Sevart said.

Fellows use the conduct of professionals in Nazi-occupied Europe as an initial framework for approaching ethical responsibility in the professions today. The FASPE curriculum takes advantage of the power of place with daily seminars and dialogue at sites of historic importance, often specific to their profession.

“By educating students about the causes of the Holocaust and the power of their chosen professions, FASPE seeks to instill a sense of professional responsibility for the ethical and moral choices that the fellows will make in their careers and in their professional relationships,” said David Goldman, FASPE’s chairman.

Sevart, of Whitefish Bay, is a Double Badger. He is a senior managing editor for the Wisconsin Law Review and a research assistant for Professor Heinz Klug. He has interned at the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Administrative Conference of the United States. After graduation, he will clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and hopes to work as an appellate litigator.

Submitted by Law School News on May 5, 2025

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