The fragility of law: constitutional patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940 - 1945

The taxonomies of an anti-Jewish legal order -- The secretaries-general : passive collaboration, Belgian law and the Jews, 1940-45 -- The fragility of law: anti-Jewish decrees and Belgian legal elites -- Aryanization, legalized theft and Belgian law -- Belgian municipalities and the introduction of anti-Jewish decrees -- Brussels : passive collaboration and the Jews of the capital -- Communicating, informing, and deciding : the city of Brussels and passive collaboration 1941-44 -- Lioge and its Jews: Hebrew and Polish stores, June 1940 -- Hirsch & co : a case study of Aryanization in Belgium -- Belgian lawyers, Belgian judges, Jewish cases -- Constitutional patriotism and the fragility of law.

The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the second world war, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.