Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany by Douglas G. Morris (English

Description: Legal Sabotage by Douglas G. Morris Readers will be fascinated by the resistance of Ernst Fraenkel within Nazi Germany. A Social Democratic Jewish lawyer, he represented political defendants, worked in the underground, and wrote a classic account of Nazisms law and politics. His gripping story shows the possibilities and limitations of using law against brutal authoritarian rule. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Jewish leftist lawyer Ernst Fraenkel was one of twentieth-century Germanys great intellectuals. During the Weimar Republic he was a shrewd constitutional theorist for the Social Democrats and in post-World War II Germany a respected political scientist who worked to secure West Germanys new democracy. This book homes in on the most dramatic years of Fraenkels life, when he worked within Nazi Germany actively resisting the regime, both publicly and secretly. As a lawyer, he represented political defendants in court. As a dissident, he worked in the underground. As an intellectual, he wrote his most famous work, The Dual State – a classic account of Nazi law and politics. This first detailed account of Fraenkels career in Nazi Germany opens up a new view on anti-Nazi resistance – its nature, possibilities, and limits. With grit, daring and imagination, Fraenkel fought for freedom against an increasingly repressive regime. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents 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 regimes dual state; 5. Thinking about legal justifications for sabotaging a tyrannical regime; Conclusion. The Ernst Fraenkel dilemma. Review German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel is remembered for his study of Nazi Germany, The Dual State. But talented historian Douglas Morris goes far beyond reconstructing Fraenkels biography, and following his path to his classic book, in order to dramatize the difficult choices of a pivotal lawyer in resistance. The result is an absorbing contribution not just to the history of German law in the twentieth century. It helps us to ponder the dilemmas of resistance for believers in the rule of law anywhere and even today. Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale University, ConnecticutThere is a rich biographical and analytical literature on the lawyer and political scientist Ernst Fraenkel. We know his clear description of the Nazism as a dual state, we also know how important he was for the modernization of political theory, especially in Western Germany. But an investigation of his activities as a lawyer and author in the underground after 1933, based on all available sources, has not yet been carried out. It is presented here in an excellent manner, and at the same time it sheds light on the old problem: How can one use the legal order as a means of sabotage against a system of tyranny? Michael Stolleis, Professor Emeritus of Legal History, Wolfgang-Goethe-University, Frankfurt am MainErnst Fraenkel was an astonishing figure. For the first five years of the Nazi regime, this Jewish, Social Democratic lawyer courageously defended political opponents of Nazis in court, while also essaying brilliant underground critiques of the Nazi legal system. Morris, himself a practicing lawyer and an accomplished scholar, has written an elegant - and all too timely - study of the possibilities and limits of resistance to a regime of perverted legality. Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College, and author of The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes TrialMorris not only empathically portrays the personality of the 35-40 year-old Fraenkel. He also thoughtfully illuminates his immediate surroundings in the resistance … And he incisively works out the different intellectual strands that the intellectual twins [(p. 174)] Fraenkel and Neumann followed as they tried - one on the spot, the other from exile - to explain the character of the Nazi regime. Rainer Eisfeld, translated from Politische VierteljahresschriftFor historians of the period … examining institutions and professions has become essential, and when it comes to the legal system, Morriss account will be required reading. Jon M. Sands, The Federal Lawyer… Morris has performed the truly remarkable feat of piecing together and analyzing Fraenkels legal practice in the Third Reich on the basis of extremely limited and scattered historical evidence … Morris greatly advances our understanding of Fraenkels dual state theory … His book is a must-read for anyone interested in political theory. Richard F. Wetzell, EuropeNow JournalMorris has offered us a close and sensitive reading of Fraenkels remarkable years under Nazism, one that deepens our understanding of Fraenkel and of the Nazi criminal justice system in those first five years, but one that also invites reflection on what it means to pursue justice when the system no longer delivers justice. Sace Elder, Central European HistoryDouglas Morris has produced an outstanding intellectual and jurisprudential study of Fraenkel in Nazi Germany, which offers a careful and nuanced narrative of Fraenkels experience as an opponent of the Nazis, and grounds this fascinating story with jurisprudential insights and contextualised detail. Fraser later writes: Morris analysis of this type of intellectual resistance is rigorous and essential to any understanding of current debates on how opposition to legalised tyranny might be possible. And he writes at the end: The intellectual history of the possibility of a progressive oppositionist legal theory … must now begin with Morris monumental study of Ernst Frankels attempts to embody and theorise resistance to totalitarian regimes and their juridical apparatuses. David Fraser, The Modern Law ReviewMorriss book provides a much more nuanced and wide-ranging analysis of Fraenkels activities and writing during the Third Reich than can be conveyed in this short review … His book is a must-read for anyone interested in political theory, the Nazi legal and political system. Richard F. Wetzell, Europe Now… a source-intensive, detailed study of Fraenkels resistance in Nazi Germany, which significantly enriches research. Michael Wildt, H-Soz-Kult von Promotional A stirring account of the years that the leftist Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel spent in Nazi Germany resisting the regime. Review Quote German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel is remembered for his study of Nazi Germany, The Dual State. But talented historian Douglas Morris goes far beyond reconstructing Fraenkels biography, and following his path to his classic book, in order to dramatize the difficult choices of a pivotal lawyer in resistance. The result is an absorbing contribution not just to the history of German law in the twentieth century. It helps us to ponder the dilemmas of resistance for believers in the rule of law anywhere and even today. Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale University, Connecticut Promotional "Headline" A stirring account of the years that the leftist Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel spent in Nazi Germany resisting the regime. Description for Bookstore Readers will be fascinated by the resistance of Ernst Fraenkel within Nazi Germany. A Social Democratic Jewish lawyer, he represented political defendants, worked in the underground, and wrote a classic account of Nazisms law and politics. His gripping story shows the possibilities and limitations of using law against brutal authoritarian rule. Description for Library Readers will be fascinated by the resistance of Ernst Fraenkel within Nazi Germany. A Social Democratic Jewish lawyer, he represented political defendants, worked in the underground, and wrote a classic account of Nazisms law and politics. His gripping story shows the possibilities and limitations of using law against brutal authoritarian rule. Details ISBN1108835007 Year 2020 ISBN-10 1108835007 ISBN-13 9781108835008 Format Hardcover Pages 344 Series Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Ernst Fraenkel in Hitlers Germany Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher Cambridge University Press Short Title Legal Sabotage Language English Publication Date 2020-08-27 Author Douglas G. Morris UK Release Date 2020-08-27 AU Release Date 2020-08-27 NZ Release Date 2020-08-27 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Alternative 9781108792714 DEWEY 340.092 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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