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Title

Law after Auschwitz : towards a jurisprudence of the Holocaust / David Fraser.

Author

Fraser, David, 1953-

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.

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Description

xi, 451 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Genocide > Europe > History
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Genocide (International law)
• World War, 1939-1945 > Law and legislation
• Genocide > Europe > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Chapter 1: Law after Auschwitz -- Law Before Auschwitz -- Chapter 2: Law Before Auschwitz -- The Body of the Law -- Nazi Law: Embodying and Destroying the Other -- Law and Legitimacy in the Nazi Rechtsstaat -- Chapter 3: Dead Man Walking: Law and Ethics after Auschwitz -- Nomos and Narratives: Agamben Witnessing Auschwitz -- Witnessing Law after Auschwitz -- Witnessing Law as the Death of the Other at Auschwitz -- Law and Blindness in Agambens Auschwitz -- Chapter 4: The Outsider does Not See All the Game: Perceptions of German Law in the Anglo-American World, 1933-1940 -- Nazi Law, Continuity, and the Stakes of the Debate -- Critiques of Nazi Legality: The International Law Exception -- Understanding Nazi Law: Contemporary Anglo-American Accounts -- Criminal Law and the Criminal State in Anglo-American Legal Scholarship -- Sterilization, Anglo-American Legal Discourse, and the Rule of Law: Continuity -- Chapter 5: Nuremburg -- Constructing Nazi Criminality and the rule of Law --^
• Law and Politics: Trying the Nazis -- Nuremberg and the Holocaust -- Constructing the Shoah in Legal Memory -- Julius Streicher and the Rule of Law: Legality and Antisemitism at/after Nuremberg -- The Justice Trial and the Trial of Justice -- Chapter 6: The Case against Vichy: Law, History, and Memory in France -- Constructing Vichy -- Constructing vichy bis. -- Judging Vichy -- Prosecuting Klaus Barbie and the Politics of Law in France -- Vichy on Trial: Paul Touvier, Crimes against Humanity and French Legal Memory -- Vichy on Trial?: The Prosecution of Maurice Papon -- Chapter 7: The Civil Equivalent of Excommunication: Constructing Holocaust and the Rule of Law in the United States -- America and the Construction of Nazi Criminality -- American Law, Citizenship, and the Pursuit of Perpetrators -- John Demjanjuk, the Holocaust and the Rule of Law -- Julius Streicher Meets the Holtzman Amendment: Constructing the Rule of Law and the Holocaust in America --^
• Chapter 8: To Draw the Sponge across the Crimes and Horrors of the Past: Prosecuting (or Not) the Holocaust in Britain -- The First Stage of Legal Forgetting: The Holocaust and British Law, 1945-1980 -- Further Action is Required: The Anton Gecas Case -- The War Crimes Act, Parliamentary Democracy and the Rule of Law -- From Serfimowitz to Sawoniuk to Kalejs: Prosecuting (or Not) War Criminals in Britain -- Chapter 9: Yes, Errors Were Made in the Past: Pursuing (or Not) Holocaust Perpetrators in Canada -- Fascism, Antisemitism, and Nation Identity in Quebec and Canada -- Antisemitism, the Rule of Law and Canadian Identity -- War Crimes, War Criminals, and Canadian Identity -- The Pursuit (or Not) of Holocaust Perpetrators in Canada -- Imre Finta and the Legality of the Holocaust -- The Americanization of Canadian Law: Extradition, Denaturalization, and Deportation -- Chapter 10: The Time Has Come to Close the Chapter: Prosecuting (or Not) War Criminals in Australia --^
• Australia: Identity, Memory and War Crimes -- War Crimes and the Rule of Law in Australia: From Indifference to Legislation -- The War Crimes Amendment Act, Law, and the Trials in Australia -- The Legal Saga of Konrad Kalejs -- Chapter 11: Law after Auschwitz: The Embodied Future and Holocaust Jurisprudence -- Law, Jurisprudence, Bodies, Auschwitz.

ISBN

0890892431 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004018078

OCLC

56096157

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library