{"id":5982,"date":"2023-05-04T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:15:16","slug":"schmidt-on-how-hermann-kantorowicz-changed-his-mind-about-america-and-its-law-1927-34-katisasch-mpipriv-yalelawsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/04\/schmidt-on-how-hermann-kantorowicz-changed-his-mind-about-america-and-its-law-1927-34-katisasch-mpipriv-yalelawsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt on How Hermann Kantorowicz Changed His Mind About America and Its Law, 1927-34 @KatIsaSch @MPIPRIV @YaleLawSch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katharina Isabel Schmidt, Yale University Law School; Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, has published <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4425677&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_philosophy%3Aof%3Alaw%3Aejournal_abstractlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Hermann Kantorowicz Changed His Mind About America and its Law, 1927\u201334<\/a> at 2023 Law and History Review 1(March 2023). Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019s University in Exile in 1933\/1934. Between his first and second stay, the German-Jewish \u00e9migr\u00e9 changed his mind about America and its law fundamentally. While he had\u2014patronizingly\u2014praised his US colleagues for \u201ccatch[ing] up\u2026 intellectually\u201d in 1927, he accused them of \u201cdestroy[ing] the Law itself\u201d in 1934. Reconstructing Kantorowicz\u2019s change of heart, my article uncovers just how open the transatlantic 1930s still were in jurisprudential matters. As leader of the so-called \u201cfree law\u201d movement, Kantorowicz had sparked a turn to \u201clife\u201d in German legal science in the years before World War I. Throughout the 1920s, he had then watched contentedly, as American \u201crealist\u201d 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\u2019s and Hitler\u2019s jurists had started turning his moderate free law ideas into a radical\u2014and dangerous\u2014legal nihilism: in designating life as law\u2019s only source, they shunned scientific legal methods. In light of these concerns, my article excavates life-law\u2019s delicate suspension between peril and potential. My sources reveal a striking, triangular relationship between German free law, American legal realism, and Nazi life-jurisprudence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katharina Isabel Schmidt, Yale University Law School; Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, has published How Hermann Kantorowicz Changed His Mind About America and its Law, 1927\u201334 at 2023 Law and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,402],"tags":[893,763],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-history","category-law-and-history-review","tag-herman-kantorowicz","tag-law-and-history"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1yu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}