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Heller on Schmitt & Nuremberg

By Lawrence Solum

Check out Kevin Jon Heller's Carl Schmitt's Nuremberg Near Miss by Kevin Jon Heller on Opinio Juris. Here is a taste:

I am particularly fascinated by how close Carl Schmitt, the political theorist who has influenced both the right and the left, came to being a defendant in one of the trials. After Schmitt joined the Nazi Party in 1933, he had been appointed the head of the Union of National-Socialist Jurists and had written a number of pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic articles for the self-published German Jurists? Newspaper. Schmitt had a falling-out with the SS in 1937 and resigned his position as Reich Professional Group Leader, although he was able to keep his professorship at the University of Berlin because Goering protected him.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on January 11, 2010 (boomark / email).