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Race, Rules, Reproduction: Lausanne Legal Modernists, Left and Right

Schmidt, Katharina Isabel
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Legal modernism; Germany; Race; Reproductive laws;
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Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities
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In the spring of 1908, Berlin's Tugliche Rundschau made alarming allegations: German youngsters studying in Switzerland were at risk of ideological capture. Conditions at Lausanne were particularly worrisome, as faculty there, first and foremost Berlin-born jurist Theodor Sternberg, had started preaching" socialist-democratic-nihilist" ideas to imperial exchange students. Lest Lausanne's Germans should rebel, the anonymous author exhorted, the Empire had to intervene. Indignation surged across French-speaking Switzerland, and columnists at the Gazette de Lausanne put a new spin on the case. The Romandie, they insisted, was no anarchist bastion. Instead, disgruntled law professor Ludwig Kuhlenbeck had tried to throw mud at the city and its university. The conservative German jurist was having a hard time in libertine Lausanne.
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/18485