Legal sabotage : Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany / Douglas G. Morris, Federal Defenders of New York.

The Jewish leftist lawyer Ernst Fraenkel was one of twentieth-century Germany's 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 Germany...

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Main Authors:Morris, Douglas G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Cambridge studies in constitutional law
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Setting the Scene of a Jewish Lawyer, Like Fraenkel, in Nazi Germany Fraenkel as a Social Democrat Practicing Law in Nazi Germany
Fraenkel as an Essayist Supporting the Illegal Underground
Fraenkel as a Scholar Renouncing the Nazi Regime's Dual State
Thinking about Legal Justifications for Sabotaging a Tyrannical Regime
Conclusion : The Ernst Fraenkel Dilemma