Dealing with the Nazi past of legal scholars in the classroom

• Autores: Viktor Winkler
• Localización: Erinnern und Vergessen / coord. por Oliver M. Brupbacher, Nadine Grotkamp, Jana Osterkamp, Tilmann Röder, Stefan Ruppert, David Sörgel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-595-4, págs. 486-504
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • After decades of research, legal history can provide a remarkably broad an sophisticated (albeit not exhaustive) account of Nazi legal scholarship. This endeavour has provided a vivid picture of the collaboration of those scholars that went on to become the most influential legal writers of German post war legal academia. How are we today to deal with this knowledge when presenting to our students the works of these scholars that are still in use? While exploring possible standards between moral condemnation and a value-free "facts-of-the-case" presentation, the article criticizes essential deficiencies of post-war legal history and is trying to make a case for a reorientation of the discipline from the point of view of legal education.