Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France

Richard H. Weisberg was the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University at the time of first publication. Weisberg is also the author of Poethics, and Other Strategies of Law and Literature.

• Introduction: On the Continuing Myth of Vichy; Chapter 1 Léon Blum, The “Stranger” at Riom: Legalized Ostracism and Vichy’s Political Trial; Chapter 2 The Basic Scheme of Ostracism; Chapter 3 The Special Treatment of Jewish Legal Professionals; Chapter 4 Barthélemy: A Catholic Prewar Liberal Is Called to Vichy; Chapter 5 The Fight to Control the Legal Fate of Jews: Administrators versus Magistrates; Chapter 6 Out-Naziing the Masters; Chapter 7 Property Law; Chapter 8 The Professional Lives of Private Lawyers; Chapter 9 Reforming the Courts, Reforming the Law: Denationalization, Special Sections, et al.; Chapter 10 Why Lawyers Underperformed: Xenophobia, Catholicism, and the Talmudic Outsider;