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

• 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.

• Disputes the view that Nazi Germany was a "criminal state", arguing that it was a state of law. The law defined "the Jew" as a new legal entity, one that could and should be killed, since he or she was viewed as subhuman. Consequently, judges and lawyers in Nazi Germany were involved in an immoral, but not an illegal, process that was based on eugenics and racism. Law after Auschwitz cannot judge Nazi law since there was continuity between them, as there was between Nazi law and previous German and Western law. Stresses the inability of war crimes trials, discussed in detail in regard to Germany, France, the USA, Great Britain, and Australia, to do justice to the victims. Their fate in the Holocaust was often marginalized in the trials, which focused on legal technicalities regarding the accused perpetrators. Emphasizes the continuity between Nazi laws, including those relating to euthanasia, and postwar eugenic practices in the West. Notes how post-Holocaust politics, including national images and Cold War rivalries, contributed to "amnesia" about aspects of the Holocaust (like collaboration). Some arguments in favor of dropping judicial proceedings against accused war criminals were antisemitic; for example, contrasting the Christian belief in forgiveness with the implicitly Jewish desire for vengeance, as argued both in England and Australia. 

Ämnesord

Förintelsen  (sao)

Folkmord  -- juridik och lagstiftning (sao)

Genocide (International law)  (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  -- Law and legislation. (LCSH)

Genocide  -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)  -- Influence. (LCSH)

Genocide (International law)  (fast)

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)  (fast)

Legislation.  (fast)

Holocaust.  (gtt)

Rechtsstelsels.  (gtt)

Rechtsfilosofie.  (gtt)

Shoah.  (ram)

Völkermord.  (swd)

Judenvernichtung.  (swd)

Rechtsethik.  (swd)

Genocide  -- Law and legislation. (fast)

Génocide  -- Procès. (ram)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)  (LCSH)

Europe.  (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Konferensnamn

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

World War (1939-1945)

Klassifikation

KZ7180 (LCC)

340/.115/094309043 (DDC)

86.10 (bcl)

Oe:oa (kssb/8 (machine generated))