Vortrag in englischer Sprache

Leo Baeck Lecture Series 2012: »Jews and Justice«
Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltungsreihe des Fritz Bauer Instituts, des Jüdischen Museums Frankfurt am Main und des Leo Baeck Institute London
In diesem Jahr ist das Thema der Leo Baeck Lecture Series »Jews and Justice«. Die Reihe beinhaltet Vorträge über deutsche Rechtstheoretiker, Schriftsteller und über den Zusammenhang von Recht und Religion. Es sollen verschiedene Konzepte von Gerechtigkeit und Recht diskutiert werden, ihre Beziehungen zu realen politischen und historischen Verhältnissen und mögliche rechtliche und politische Konflikte, die daraus hervorgingen.
 
In 1941 the German Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel published his classic account of Nazism, The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship. While other politically engaged socialist lawyers fled Nazi Germany in 1933, Fraenkel got out only in September 1938. Fraenkel’s activities from 1933 through 1938 raise questions about the possibilities of scholarly inquiry under Nazi rule and more. While many Jewish lawyers lost their law licenses or struggled to maintain their legal practices, Fraenkel continued to represent clients in political trials. How could he accomplish what he did and still survive? How did his circumstances frame the nature of his thought? The talk will explore Fraenkel’s rare brew of practical activism and theoretical analysis, which tested the boundaries of anti-Nazi defiance.

Prof. Dr. Douglas G. Morris is a legal historian and practicing criminal defense attorney in New York. He is author of Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany, University of Michigan Press, 2005. He received several prizes, e.g. in 1998 the 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«.

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