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- What Happened After Midnight?
- The Ancient Greeks' Ideas of Injustice and Guilt
- The Persistence of Culture: The Case of Anti-Semitism in German Communities From the Medieval Period to the 1930s
| Posted: 04 May 2011 09:45 AM PDT Jed Glickstein, Yale Law School, has published After Midnight: The Circuit Judges and the Repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801. Here is the abstract. A student of law or American history almost always encounters the midnight judges as a mere footnote to Marbury v. Madison. Yet despite an outpouring of work on the conflict between the Republicans and the federal judiciary in the wake of the Election of 1800, insufficient attention has been paid to the judges' role in the crisis they served to precipitate. This Article aims to correct that oversight. |
This new evidences argues for a revised understanding that puts the midnight judges, if not on the marquee, at least in a supporting role in working out the meaning of the repeal.Download the paper from SSRN at the link.
Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Management, & National Bureau of Economic Research, and Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) have published Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany. Here is the abstract.
The Ancient Greeks' Ideas of Injustice and Guilt
Posted: 04 May 2011 09:41 AM PDT
Carlos Arturo Gómez Pavajeau, Universidad Externado de Colombia, has published Injusto Y Culpabilidad En Los Grandes Filósofos Griegos (Unfair and Guilt in the Great Greek Philosophers), number 91 in Derecho Penal y Criminologia (2010). Here is the abstract.
The period after the obscurantism of the Middle Ages was called, quite rightly, as the Renaissance. This expression refers, no doubt thinking of the great Greek philosophers, however, with regard to criminal law, very little has worked his connections with such thinking, it seems that there only influenced the illustration, with proposals from scratch and no reference to the past. With this contribution I want to prove that this is not entirely true, since, mutatis mutandi keeping some differences, the most important achievements of modern criminal law were explicitly or implicitly contained in the thinking of the great Greek philosophers.Note that the full text is in Spanish.
Posted: 04 May 2011 09:33 AM PDT
Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Management, & National Bureau of Economic Research, and Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) have published Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany. Here is the abstract.
How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many contemporaries blamed the Jews. Cities all over Germany witnessed mass killings of their Jewish population. At the same time, numerous Jewish communities were spared these horrors. We use plague pogroms as an indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. Pogroms during the Black Death are a strong and robust predictor of violence against Jews in the 1920s, and of votes for the Nazi Party. In addition, cities that saw medieval anti-Semitic violence also had higher deportation rates for Jews after 1933, were more likely to see synagogues damaged or destroyed in the Night of Broken Glass in 1938, and their inhabitants wrote more anti-Jewish letters to the editor of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer.Download the paper from SSRN at the link.
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