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Routledge
472 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 1998. Weisberg provides a comprehensive account of the French legal system's complicity with its German occupiers during the dark period known as 'Vichy'. Drawing on archival sources, personal interviews, and historical research, this book reveals how legalized persecution operated on a practical level, often exceeding German expectations. All while comparing the Vichy... Read more
Introduction: On the Continuing Myth of Vichy; Chapter 1 Léon Blum, The “Stranger” at Riom: Legalized Ostracism and Vichy’s Political Trial; Chapter 2 The Basic Scheme of Ostracism; Chapter 3 The Special Treatment of Jewish Legal Professionals; Chapter 4 Barthélemy: A Catholic Prewar Liberal Is Called to Vichy; Chapter 5 The Fight to Control the Legal Fate of Jews: Administrators versus Magistrates; Chapter 6 Out-Naziing the Masters; Chapter 7 Property Law; Chapter 8 The Professional Lives of Private Lawyers; Chapter 9 Reforming the Courts, Reforming the Law: Denationalization, Special Sections, et al.; Chapter 10 Why Lawyers Underperformed: Xenophobia, Catholicism, and the Talmudic Outsider;
Biography
Richard H. Weisberg was the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University at the time of first publication. Weisberg is also the author of Poethics, and Other Strategies of Law and Literature.
