Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: On the Continuing Myth of Vichy; Chapter 2 Léon Blum, The “Stranger” at Riom: Legalized Ostracism and Vichy’s Political Trial; Chapter 3 The Basic Scheme of Ostracism; Chapter 4 The Special Treatment of Jewish Legal Professionals; Chapter 5 Barthélemy: A Catholic Prewar Liberal Is Called to Vichy; Chapter 6 The Fight to Control the Legal Fate of Jews: Administrators versus Magistrates; Chapter 7 Out-Naziing the Masters; Chapter 8 Property Law; Chapter 9 The Professional Lives of Private Lawyers; Chapter 10 Reforming the Courts, Reforming the Law: Denationalization, Special Sections, et al.; Chapter 11 Why Lawyers Underperformed: Xenophobia, Catholicism, and the Talmudic Outsider;

About the Author

Richard H. Weisberg is the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University and the author, most recently , of Poethics, and Other Strategies of Law and Literature.