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Tschentscher on Nazi Lawmaking

By Larry Solum

Axel Tschentscher (Bern University - Law School) has posted <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1579414">Footprints of the Evil: Techniques of Nazi Lawmaking</a> on SSRN. Here is the abstract:<ul> We can recognize evil when we see it. But can we really? How about recognizing evil laws? Are there specific techniques that should trigger our internal alarm bells? Questions like these lead to the textual analysis of Nazi lawmaking. There is no period in history covered by more literature. But most books and papers process the facts before presenting them. By contrast, this paper lets the laws speak against themselves. The paper is part of an ongoing effort in providing an account of Nazi lawmaking.</ul>

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).