Overview

As a result of the Nazi-regime, German law faculties lost just over a quarter of their members. Recent years have seen a growing body of literature on the contribution of scientists, historians, and literary and artistic figures who were forced to leave Germany and Austria after Hitler came to power. This volume is the first study of the important contribution of refugee and emigre legal scholars to the development of English law. It considers nineteen legal scholars originally trained in Germany or Austria (fifteen of whom were expelled from their posts in the 1930s) and who made their home in England (two of whom did so well before the Nazis came to power), and assesses their contribution to scholarship in a very different legal system from that which they left.Readership: Legal academics, practitioners, and judges interested in the doctrinal and intellectual history of their subjects, or the intellectual history of law, legal and social historians, and those interested in Jewish history and the history of the pre- and post War years.

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Author:   Sir Jack Beatson, FBA, QC ,  Reinhard Zimmermann
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   1.438kg
ISBN:  

9780199270583

ISBN 10:   0199270589
Pages:   872
Publication Date:   01 October 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmermann: Preface Reinhard Zimmermann: 'Was Heimat hiess, nun heisst es Hoelle' The Emigration of Lawyers from Hitler's Germany: Political Background, Legal Framework, and Cultural Context Jack Beatson: Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Friendly Enemy Aliens: Britain as a Home for Emigre and Refugee Lawyers Wolfgang Ernst: Fritz Schulz (1879-1957) Tony Honore: Fritz Pringsheim (1882-1967) Alan Rodger: David Daube (1909-1999) Peter Birks: Roman Law in Twentieth Century England David Ibbetson: Hermann Kantorowicz (1877-1940) and Walter Ullmann (1910-1983) Mark Freedland: Otto Kahn-Freund (1900-1979) Werner Lorenz: Ernst J. Cohn (1904-1976) Tony Jolowicz: Comparative Law in Twentieth Century England John Adams: Clive Macmillan Schmitthoff (1903-1990) Lawrence Collins: F. A. Mann (1907-1991) Gerhard Dannemann: Martin Wolff (1872-1953) Christopher Forsyth: Kurt Lipstein (1909-) Peter North: English Private International Law in Twentieth Century England John Bell: Wolfgang Friedmann (1907-1972) (with an excursus on Gustav Radbruch [1978-1949]) Manfred Wiegandt: Gerhard Leibholz (1901-1982) Mathias Schmoeckel: Lassa Oppenheim (1858-1919) Martti Koskenniemi: Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960) Stephanie Steinle: Georg Schwarzenberger (1908-1991) James Crawford: Public International Law in Twentieth Century England Roger Hood: Hermann Mannheim (1889-1974) and Max Grunhut (1893-1964) Peter Stein: Emigre Legal Scholars in Britain Barry Nicholas: German Refugees in Oxford - Some Personal Recollections Christian v. Bar: Kurt Lipstein Kurt Lipstein: Cambridge 1933-2002 Frank Wooldridge, Jack Beatson, and Reinhard Zimmermann: Appendix Index

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<br> Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmerman have collected (and contributed) papers rich in the texture of the experience of the judges, lawyers, and law professors driven into exile by the National Socialist regime in Germany and the impact this had in terms of the host's legal and academic culture. This book is important for those interested in the dialectic of discourse between alien legal systems. --Law and History Review<br> In a nicely organized volume, Justice Sir Jack Beatson and Professor Reinhard Zimmerman have edited two dozen essaysabout the most important German-speaking legal scholars and lawyers who fled Nazi Germany [their] effort is one of reparation, respect, and affection for its subjects. --Richard M. Buxbaum, American Journal of Comparative Law<br>

Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmerman have collected (and contributed) papers rich in the texture of the experience of the judges, lawyers, and law professors driven into exile by the National Socialist regime in Germany and the impact this had in terms of the host's legal and academic culture. This book is important for those interested in the dialectic of discourse between alien legal systems. --Law and History Review<br> In a nicely organized volume, Justice Sir Jack Beatson and Professor Reinhard Zimmerman have edited two dozen essaysabout the most important German-speaking legal scholars and lawyers who fled Nazi Germany [their] effort is one of reparation, respect, and affection for its subjects. --Richard M. Buxbaum, American Journal of Comparative Law<br>

Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmerman have collected (and contributed) papers rich in the texture of the experience of the judges, lawyers, and law professors driven into exile by the National Socialist regime in Germany and the impact this had in terms of the host's legal and academic culture. This book is important for those interested in the dialectic of discourse between alien legal systems. --Law and History Review In a nicely organized volume, Justice Sir Jack Beatson and Professor Reinhard Zimmerman have edited two dozen essaysabout the most important German-speaking legal scholars and lawyers who fled Nazi Germany [their] effort is one of reparation, respect, and affection for its subjects. --Richard M. Buxbaum, American Journal of Comparative Law Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmerman have collected (and contributed) papers rich in the texture of the experience of the judges, lawyers, and law professors driven into exile by the National Socialist regime in Germany and the impact this had in terms of the host's legal and academic culture. This book is important for those interested in the dialectic of discourse between alien legal systems. --Law and History Review In a nicely organized volume, Justice Sir Jack Beatson and Professor Reinhard Zimmerman have edited two dozen essaysabout the most important German-speaking legal scholars and lawyers who fled Nazi Germany [their] effort is one of reparation, respect, and affection for its subjects. --Richard M. Buxbaum, American Journal of Comparative Law Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmerman have collected (and contributed) papers rich in the texture of the experience of the judges, lawyers, and law professors driven into exile by the National Socialist regime in Germany and the impact this had in terms of the host's legal and academic culture. Thisbook is important for those interested in the dialectic of discourse between alien legal systems. --Law and History Review In a nicely organized volume, Justice Sir Jack Beatson and Professor Reinhard Zimmerman have edited two dozen essaysabout the most important German-speaking legal scholars and lawyers who fled Nazi Germany [their] effort is one of reparation, respect, and affection for its subjects. --Richard M.Buxbaum, American Journal of Comparative Law Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmerman have collected (and contributed) papers rich in the texture of the experience of the judges, lawyers, and law professors driven into exile by the National Socialist regime in Germany and the impact this had in terms of the host's legal and academic culture. This book is important for those interested in the dialectic of discourse between alien legal systems. --Law and History Review

Author Information

Sir Jack Beatson, FBA, is a Justice of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, and former Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge. Reinhard Zimmermann, FBA, is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, Hamburg; and Professor of Private Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Legal History at the University of Regensburg.

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