E-Money and Trusts: A Property Analysis
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During the Second World War, more than 60,000 Jewish members of the American, British and French armed forces became prisoners of war in Germany. Against all expectations, these prisoners were treated in accordance with the 1929 Geneva Convention, and the majority made it home alive. This article seeks to explain this most astonishing circumstance. It begins by collating the references to the experiences of Western Jewish POWs from the historical literature to provide a hitherto-unseen overview of their treatment in captivity. It then asks what made their protection from persecution possible. To this end, it explores Germany's wider motivations for its selective application of the Geneva Convention and highlights the role that military identity played in making its application seem necessary for all POWs from the Western front, including Jewish POWs.
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In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 362-383
ISSN: 1461-7390
During the Second World War, more than 60,000 Jewish members of the American, British and French armed forces became prisoners of war in Germany. Against all expectations, these prisoners were treated in accordance with the 1929 Geneva Convention, and the majority made it home alive. This article seeks to explain this most astonishing circumstance. It begins by collating the references to the experiences of Western Jewish POWs from the historical literature to provide a hitherto-unseen overview of their treatment in captivity. It then asks what made their protection from persecution possible. To this end, it explores Germany's wider motivations for its selective application of the Geneva Convention and highlights the role that military identity played in making its application seem necessary for all POWs from the Western front, including Jewish POWs.
In: Social & Legal Studies, 2021, Vol. 30(3) 362–383
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In: Piska, Nick & Gibson, Haley (eds) Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell (Oxford: Counterpress), 2019
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In: Jacques, J. (2017), Where Nothing Happened: The Experience of War Captivity and Levinas's Concept of the 'There Is', Social and Legal Studies, 26(2): 230- 248
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In: Social & legal studies: an international journal, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 230-248
ISSN: 1461-7390
This article takes as its subject matter the juridico-political space of the prisoner of war (POW) camp. It sets out to determine the nature of this space by looking at the experience of war captivity by Jewish members of the Western forces in World War II, focusing on the experience of Emmanuel Levinas, who spent 5 years in German war captivity. On the basis of a historical analysis of the conditions in which Levinas spent his time in captivity, it argues that the POW camp was a space of indifference that was determined by the legal exclusion of prisoners from both war and persecution. Held behind the stage of world events, prisoners were neither able to exercise their legal agency nor released from law into a realm of extra-legal violence. Through a close reading of Levinas's early concept of the 'there is' [ il y a], the article seeks to establish the impact on prisoners of prolonged confinement in such a space. It sets out how prisoners' subjectivity dissolved in the absence of meaningful relations with others and identifies the POW camp as a space in which existence was reduced to indeterminate, impersonal being.
In: Jacques, J. (2016), Law, Decision, Necessity: Shifting the Burden of Responsibility, in The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge: 107-119
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