Jurists Uprooted German-speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain

As a result of the Nazi-regime, German law faculties lost just over a quarter of their members. Recent years have seen a growing body of literature on the contribution of scientists, historians, and literary and artistic figures who were forced to leave Germany and Austria after Hitler came to power. This volume is the first study of the important contribution of refugee and é migré legal scholars to the development of English law. It considers nineteen legal scholars originally trained in Germany or Austria, (fifteen of whom were expelled from their posts in the 1930s) and who made their home in England, and assesses their contribution to scholarship in a very different legal system from that which they left.

Sir Jack Beatson, FBA, is a Justice of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, and former Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge. Reinhard Zimmermann, FBA, is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, Hamburg; and Professor of Private Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Legal History at the University of Regensburg.