Peter Burdon

Hannah Arendt

Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses Hannah Arendt's controversial text Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil to examine major themes in contemporary jurisprudence, including the nature of law, legal authority, the duty of citizens, the nexus between morality and law and political action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367232269
• ISBN-10: 036723226X
• Artikelnr.: 57053171

Autorenporträt

Peter Burdon is Associate Professor and Reader at the Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: The Eichmann fires
2 The House of Judgment
3 The gray zone: Kapo trials
4 The accused
5 From expulsion to extermination
6 Wannsee: The enabling conference
7 Duties of a law-abiding citizen
8 The deportation chapters
9 Did Eichmann receive a fair trial?
10 Judgment
11 Reading Eichmann today
12 The last Nazi trials and forgiveness