James Q. Whitman

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James Q. Whitman (born April 29, 1957 ) is an American lawyer.

Life

James Whitman studied law at Yale University ( JD ) and Columbia University (MA), and received his PhD from the University of Chicago . Whitman was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010 .

Whitman is a lawyer and professor of Foreign and Comparative Law at Yale University.

In his published 2017 study of German racial legislation in the era of National Socialism Whitman makes the case that through the work of the German jurist Henry Krieger, the beginning of the 1930s a research stay in Arkansas graduated, the US racial laws and their pragmatic handling in the legal preparation of the Nuremberg Laws were incorporated. The German publicist Hannes Stein reads an impressively documented study in the work, while the political scientist Joshua Muravchik rejected Whitman's interpretation of American history as a “ reductio ad Hitlerum ”.

In 2017 Whitman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law . Princeton University Press, 2017
    • Hitler's American Role: How the United States Inspired Nazi Racial Laws . Translation by Andreas Wirthensohn. Munich: CHBeck, 2018
  • The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial . Yale University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-11600-7 .
  • Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe . Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-518260-6 .
  • The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty , Yale Law Journal, Vol. 113, April 2004
  • The legacy of Roman law in the German romantic era: historical vision and legal change . Princeton University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-691-05560-2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannes Stein: Hitler's lawyers studied racism in America . Review, in: Literary World , March 11, 2017, p. 2
  2. ^ Literature by and about Joshua Muravchik in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Did American Racism Inspire the Nazis? A new book claims as much — and in so doing falls into the intellectual trap known as reductio ad Hitlerum . Review, in: Mosaic Magazine , March 9, 2017
  4. ↑ James Q. Whitman: Hitler's American Model , announcement by Princeton University Press
personal data
SURNAME Whitman, James Q.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whitman, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1957