FA Mann The Lawyer and His Legacy

This book traces the life and legacy of a German Jewish lawyer, F A Mann, who moved to the UK in 1933 fleeing racial persecution from Germany, and later became one of the best-known legal minds of his age, equally versed and experienced in legal practice and legal scholarship.

With contributions from established and emerging scholars, legal practitioners, and members of the judiciary from around the world, F A Mann: The Lawyer and His Legacy is split into three parts. Part I sets out a legal biography of F A Mann, with a particular emphasis on his background, network, and the insights afforded by previously unstudied archival materials. Part II covers the broad range of sub-disciplines and practice areas in which Mann was active and explores the way in which he helped to form them. Part III, on monetary law, reflects both Mann's outstanding influence and the current topicality of monetary law issues.

Drawing on some 12,500 letters of Mann's personal correspondence with judges, academics, and legal practitioners, this book explores how Mann's biography, his equal familiarity with German and English law and with academia and legal practice, and his wide range of legal interests have contributed to his lasting influence on law and legal scholarship.

Jason Allen, Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law; Director, SMU Centre for AI & Data Governance, Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law,Gerhard Dannemann, Professor of English Law, British Economy and Politics, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin; Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, Humboldt University

Gerhard Dannemann read law at the Universities of Freiburg and Bonn, qualifying for legal practice in 1988. He held academic positions at the University of Freiburg (1988-1991; Dr. iur,, 1993; Dr. iur habil. 2002), the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (1991-1994), University College London (1992-1995), and the University of Oxford (1994-2002, last as Reader in Comparative Law). Since 2003, he is Professor of English Law, British Economy and Politics at Humboldt University, Berlin. He has published notably on comparative law, law of obligations, conflict of laws, public international law, and German émigré scholars.


Jason Grant Allen is an Associate Professor of Law at SMU Yong Pung How School of Law and Director of the SMU Centre for AI & Data Governance, publishing widely on law and emerging technology issues and working across the public law/private law divide including the regulation of emerging technologies, and the extension of law into digital contexts. Jason studied Law and German at the University of Tasmania and has been a DAAD Scholar (Universität Augsburg), Poynton Scholar (University of Cambridge) and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and has held affiliations and visiting positions at various institutions.

Introduction, Gerhard Dannemann and Jason Grant Allen
Part I 'A German Lawyer of Jewish Extraction' in England: F A Mann's Legal Biography
1. Ein Bericht aus einer Akademie: Writing About Germany's Lost Jewish Scholars, 80 Years On, Jason Grant Allen
2. On Being a German Jew in the "Golden Years", Frank Mecklenburg
3. Pragmatism Meets Praxisorientierung: F A Mann and a Transnational Biography in Law, Christoph König
4. Out of Harm's Way: F A Mann's Attempts to Demystify Money, Law, and Judaism, Reut Yael Paz
Part II 'A Wealth of Legal Knowledge': The International Lawyer
5. The Influence of F A Mann on English Case Law: The Validity of Acts of State Contrary to Human Rights and International Law and the Enforcement of Foreign Public Law, Lawrence Collins
6. Jurisdiction and Private International Law: F A Mann's Unvollendete?, Gerhard Dannemann
7. Delocalisation and Re-localisation in Commercial Law and the Law of Arbitration: The Continued Relevance of F A Mann's Thought, Giuditta Cordero-Moss
Part III 'The Task of the Jurist to Define': The Legal Aspects of Money
8. Before F A Mann: Martin Wolff on Money, Wolfgang Ernst
9. Gold Clauses in the Capital Markets of the Early Twentieth Century, David Fox
10. F A Mann's Conservative Revolution, Joseph H Sommer
11. Constitutional Dimensions of Monetary Authority Under the Gold Standard and Bretton Woods, Will Bateman
12. El Aspecto Legal del Dinero: F A Mann's Impact in Latin America, María Emilia Buccella, Rosa María Lastra & Jason Grant Allen
13. F A Mann on Cryptocurrency, Simon Gleeson
14. A New and Unsolved Riddle in Monetary Law: The Complex Case of Central Bank Digital Currency, Christian Hofman
Conclusions, Gerhard Dannemann and Jason Grant Allen