Professor Reicher was Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and one of Australia’s leading international law and taxation experts. He also taught for many years at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Melbourne Law School. He served on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, which oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the museum’s Academic Committee and Committee on Conscience.  

During his residency at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Professor Reicher combed the Visual History Archive for personal histories that would add an important human dimension to his popular Law and the Holocaust course at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Professor Reicher said he believed it was essential for law students to fully appreciate “the intensely human effects of the legal system on the daily lives of ordinary walking, talking, thinking, feeling human beings, like every single one of us.” By adding the VHA’s intensely moving and intimate testimonies to his course, he said, “the potential for impact and influence is enormous.” Professor Reicher passed away in October 2014, three months after completing his Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching.