Douglas G Morris

Legal Sabotage

Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 303
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9781108792714
• ISBN-10: 1108792715
• Artikelnr.: 62188557

Autorenporträt

Douglas Morris is both a legal historian and a criminal defense attorney for indigent clients in New York City. He has published widely on twentieth-century German legal history and was a recipient of the 1998 Thurgood Marshall Award from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for serving 'as pro bono counsel to a human being under a sentence of death'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Setting the scene of a Jewish lawyer, like Fraenkel, in nazi Germany
2. Fraenkel as a social democrat practicing law in nazi Germany
3. Fraenkel as an essayist supporting the illegal underground
4. Fraenkel as a scholar renouncing the nazi regime's dual state
5. Thinking about legal justifications for sabotaging a tyrannical regime
Conclusion. The Ernst Fraenkel dilemma.