Richard H. Weisberg

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Richard Harvey Weisberg (born May 24, 1944 ) is an American legal scholar and legal historian.

Life

Richard H. Weisberg studied literature at Brandeis University and received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1970. He then became a lecturer at the University of Chicago . In 1974 he also received a JD (Juris Doctor) degree from Columbia University , where he was also one of the editors of the Columbia Law Review .

Weisberg worked for law firms in New York and Paris. He provided legal advice to those persecuted by German National Socialism and their descendants. Weisberg has presented a study on the legal persecution of Jews in Vichy France and has published several articles on the subject. Weisberg also published in the field of law and literature .

Weisberg has been with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University since 1977 , founded Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature in 1988 and later became director of Holocaust and Human Right Studies. He is also an honorary professor at Wuhan University and has held various visiting professorships at US universities. Weisberg was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 2008 he was accepted as a knight in the Legion of Honor .

Fonts (selection)

  • La faute idéale de roses Le thème de Hamlet dans la correspondance et les oeuvres de Mallarmé pendant les années 1859-1867. Ithaca, NY 1967. MA Cornell University 1967
  • Literature as negativity: ressentiment in Dostoyevski and Flaubert . by Richard Harvey dissertation, 1970
  • Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France . New York ; New York Univ. Pr., 1998 (also in French translation, 1998)
  • The Failure of the Word, When Lawyers Write . New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1984
    • Legal stories: about justice in literature . Walter Popp in Romanian. Afterword by Bernhard Schlink . Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​2013
  • Poethics: and Other Strategies of Law and Literature . New York: Columbia University Press, 1992
  • In Praise of Intransigence: The Perils of Flexibility . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Mayer : States as perpetrators: ministerial bureaucracy and "Jewish policy" in Nazi Germany and Vichy France. A comparison . Munich: Oldenbourg, 2010
  2. Michael Stolleis : There is no world behind lots of paragraphs . Review, in: FAZ , March 9, 2013, p. L16