Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany (Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law)

L'éditeur indique : "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's new democracy. This book homes in on the most dramatic years of Fraenkel's 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 Fraenkel's 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." Cover......Page 1 Legal Sabotage......Page 2 Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law - Series page......Page 3 Legal Sabotage - Title page......Page 6 Copyright page......Page 7 Contents......Page 10 Plates......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 13 Abbreviations......Page 16 Introduction......Page 18 1 - Setting the Scene of a Jewish Lawyer, Like Fraenkel, in Nazi Germany......Page 27 2 - Fraenkel as a Social Democrat Practicing Law in Nazi Germany......Page 60 3 - Fraenkel as an Essayist Supporting the Illegal Underground......Page 122 4 - Fraenkel as a Scholar Condemning the Nazi Regime’s Dual State......Page 141 5 - Thinking about the Legal Justifications for Sabotaging a Tyrannical Regime......Page 169 Conclusion - The Ernst Fraenkel Dilemma......Page 216 Notes......Page 228 Bibliography......Page 264 Index......Page 289 Plate Section......Page 303 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 Nazism's law and politics. His gripping story shows the possibilities and limitations of using law against brutal authoritarian rule.