Arvind Dilawar, The Daily Beast;
How the Nazis Used the Rule of Law Against Jewish Lawyers
A
new book on the persecution of Jewish lawyers under the Third Reich
ably documents a dark history—but fails to acknowledge the complicity of
the law.
"Released in English for the first time by the American Bar Association (ABA), Lawyers Without Rights
is a powerful work of history, commemorating Berlin’s Jewish attorneys
while also describing how they were barred from their profession and, in
most cases, driven from their city. Unfortunately, the tragedy of
Lawyers Without Rights is not confined to history but permeates the
ongoing idealization of “the rule of law.”"
