Dr Or Bassok's discovery of a mysterious meeting

"Mystery Solved: Harvard Prof. of Jewish Descent Shaped Carl Scmhitt's Nazi Ideology" - Harretz newspaper in English and Hebrew reported on Dr Or Bassok's discovery of a mysterious meeting held in Berlin in 1931 between German legal theorist Carl Schmitt and Harvard Law Professor Josef Redlich. Schmitt, who would later become the crown lawyer of the Nazi Regime, wrote in 1934 essay that this meeting drove him to adopt National Socialist ideology but never revealed the name of the scholar whom he met. Based on Schmitt's diaries, an obscure lecture he gave in Italy in 1936, a letter Schmitt wrote in 1962 and other materials, Dr. Bassok was able to expose the identity of the mysterious scholar. Bassok's article--that is forthcoming in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (OUP)--also offers an explanation for why the conversation with Redlich was so influential in Schmitt's mind and on the relevancy of the insights offered in the Schmitt-Redlich meeting to current debates.

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