Jurists uprooted
Subtitle: German-speaking émigré lawyers in twentieth-century Britain
By: edited by Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmermann.
Contributors: Beatson, J.; Zimmermann, Reinhard, 1952 Oct. 10-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 850
Subjects: Law -- England -- German influences -- History; Jewish lawyers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Jewish lawyers -- Austria -- History -- 20th century; Exiles -- Germany -- Biography; Exiles -- Austria -- Biography; Exiles -- England -- Biography; Jewish lawyers -- England -- History -- 20th century; Practice of law (Germanic law); Germans -- England -- Intellectual life; Austrians -- England -- Intellectual life
Genres: Biography.
Description: As a result of the Nazi regime, German law faculties lost over a quarter of their members. This book looks at these refugee and emigré lawyers and their contribution to the development of English law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Was Heimat hiebs, nun heibst es Hölle': the emigration of lawyers from Hitler's Germany: political background, legal framework, and cultural context -- Reinhard Zimmermann; title: Aleins, enemy aliens, and friendly enemy aliens: Britian as a home form emigré and refugee lawyers -- Jack Beatson; title: Fritz Schulz (1879-1957) -- Wolfgang Ernst; title: Fritz Pringsheim (1882-1967) -- Tony Honoré; title: David Daube (1909-1999) -- Alan Rodger; title: Roman law in twentieth-century Britain -- Peter Birks; title: Hermann Kantorowicz (1877-1940) and Walter Ullmann (1910-1983) -- David Ibbetson; title: Otto Kahn-Freund (1900-1979) -- Mark Freedland; title: Ernst J. Cohn (1904-1976) -- Werner Lorenz; title: Comparative law in twentieth-century England -- J.A. Jolowicz -- Clive M. Schmitthoff (1903-1990) / -- John N. Adams; title: F.A. Mann (1907-1991) -- Lawrence Collins -- Plate section:; title: Photographs of the German-speaking emigré lawyers --; title: Martin Wolff (1872-1953) -- Gerhard Dannemann; title: Kurt Lipstein (*1909) -- Christopher Forsyth; title: Private international law in twentieth-century England -- Peter North; title: Wolfgang Friedmann (1907-1972), with an Excursus on Gustav Radbruch (1878-1949) -- John Bell; title: Gerhard Leibholz (1901-1982) -- Manfred H. Wiegandt; title: Lassa Oppenheim (1858-1919) -- Mathias Schmoeckel; title: Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960) -- Martti Koskenniemi; title: Georg Schwarzenberger (1908-1991) -- Stephanie Steinle; title: Public international law in twentieth-century England -- James Crawford; title: Hermann Mannheim (1889-1974) and Max Grünhut (1893-1964) -- Roger Hood; title: Emigré legal scholars in Britain - personal recollections -- Peter Stein; title: German refugees in Oxford - some personal recollections -- Barry Nicholas; title: Kurt Lipstein - the scholar and the man -- Christian v. Bar; title: Cambridge 1933-2002 -- Kurt Lipstein -- Appendix / -- Frank Wooldridge, -- Jack Beatson, -- Reinhard Zimmermann.