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Hermann Kantorowicz crossed the Atlantic twice: to take up a visiting professorship at Columbia Law School in the summer of 1927, and to find refuge at New York's University in Exile in 1933/1934. Between his first and second stay, the German-Jewish émigré changed his mind about America and its law fundamentally. While he had—patronizingly—praised his US colleagues for “catch[ing] up… intellectually” in 1927, he accused them of “destroy[ing] the Law itself” in 1934. Reconstructing Kantorowicz's change of heart, my article uncovers just how open the transatlantic 1930s still were in jurisprudential matters. As leader of the so-called “free law” movement, Kantorowicz had sparked a turn to “life” in German legal science in the years before World War I. Throughout the 1920s, he had then watched contentedly, as American “realist” scholars drew on free law ideas for their own critical projects. By 1934, however, Kantorowicz could not help but notice parallels between New Deal and Nazi law. To his mind, both Roosevelt's and Hitler's jurists had started turning his moderate free law ideas into a radical—and dangerous—legal nihilism: in designating law as life's only source, they shunned scientific legal methods. In light of these concerns, my article excavates life-law's delicate suspension between peril and potential. My sources reveal a striking, triangular relationship between German free law, American legal realism, and Nazi life-jurisprudence.
Hermann Kantorowicz如何改变他对美国及其法律的看法,1927–34–CORRIGENDUM
Hermann Kantorowicz两次穿越大西洋:1927年夏天在哥伦比亚大学法学院担任客座教授,1933年至1934年在纽约流亡大学寻求庇护。在他第一次和第二次逗留期间,这位德国犹太人的移民从根本上改变了他对美国及其法律的看法。1927年,他高高在上地称赞他的美国同事“在智力上迎头赶上”,而1934年,他又指责他们“破坏了法律本身”。我的文章重现了坎特罗维茨的转变,揭示了跨大西洋的20世纪30年代在法理学问题上仍然是多么开放。作为所谓的“自由法”运动的领袖,坎托罗维茨在第一次世界大战前的几年里引发了德国法学向“生活”的转变。在整个20世纪20年代,他心满意足地看着美国“现实主义”学者在他们自己的批判项目中借鉴自由法的思想。然而,到了1934年,坎特罗维茨不禁注意到新政与纳粹法律之间的相似之处。在他看来,罗斯福和希特勒的法学家们已经开始把他温和的自由法律思想变成一种激进而危险的法律虚无主义:他们把法律指定为生活的唯一源泉,回避科学的法律方法。鉴于这些担忧,我的文章挖掘了生命法则在危险和潜力之间微妙的悬浮。我的资料来源揭示了德国自由法、美国法律现实主义和纳粹生命法学之间惊人的三角关系。
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Law and History Review (LHR), America"s leading legal history journal, encompasses American, European, and ancient legal history issues. The journal"s purpose is to further research in the fields of the social history of law and the history of legal ideas and institutions. LHR features articles, essays, commentaries by international authorities, and reviews of important books on legal history. American Society for Legal History