Kenneth F Ledford
Biographic Data
| ID | 255550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth F Ledford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth F |
| FAMILY NAME | Ledford |
| SIGNATURE | LEDFORD K F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Citizens into Dishonored Felons: Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806–1933
Law, History, and Justice: Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century Annette Weinke
Annette Weinke’s deeply researched, tightly argued, and insightful book is a welcome translation of the German original, published in 2016 by Wallstein Verlag as Gewalt, Geschichte, Gerechtigkeit: Transnationale Debatten über deutsche Staatsverbrechen im 20. Jahrhundert. The clear and careful translation by Nicholas Evangelos Levis makes available Weinke’s careful and creative analysis to a non-German-reading audience interested in law, internati…
Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law James Q. Whitman
Jim Whitman’s book-length essay makes a bold argument in modest language. Repeatedly questioning the fairness of asking whether American legislative models influenced the Nuremberg Citizenship and Blood Laws of September 1935, Whitman methodically frames an inescapable truth: Nazi lawyers who drafted legislation to exclude Jews from German society consistently turned to American law for guidance. And the more radical the Nazi lawyers, the stronge…
Intellectual, Institutional, and Technological Transitions: Central European History , 2004–2014
Volumes 38 to 47 of Central European History , which appeared from July 2004 to June 2014, represented years of fundamental transition in the life of the journal and of its sponsoring society: then the Conference Group for Central European History, now the Central European History Society. This fundamental transition manifested itself in three forms: institutional formality, both of the journal and of the Conference Group/Society; publishing orga…
M ischa S uter . Rechtstrieb: Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus, 1800–1900
In Rechtstrieb: Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus, 1800–1900, Mischa Suter has written a fascinating and broadly important book about a topic that might appear tedious and trivial: the judicial enforcement of debt. Suter weaves together theoretical innovations with detailed studies of individual agency in several cantons of Switzerland during the nineteenth century to make an important contribution to the emerging new history o…
Machtvolle Verhandlungen: Zur Kulturgeschichte der deutschen Strafjustiz 1879–1924
Alexandra Ortmann has written an important book that represents a crucial new direction in understanding the layered uses and meanings of criminal law and procedure during an era in which German legal forms and institutions provided models for study and emulation around the world. A revised version of a history dissertation from the University of Göttingen, this book ranks with the work of the author’s dissertation director, Rebekka Habermas, as …
Antisemitismus vor Gericht: Debatten uber die juristische Ahndung judenfeindlicher Agitation in Deutschland (1879-1960)
Journal Article Antisemitismus vor Gericht: Debatten über die juristische Ahndung judenfeindlicher Agitation in Deutschland (1879–1960) Get access Antisemitismus vor Gericht: Debatten über die juristische Ahndung judenfeindlicher Agitation in Deutschland (1879–1960). By Christoph Jahr. Frankfurt: Campus. 2011. 475pp. €39.90 (paperback). Kenneth F. Ledford Kenneth F. Ledford Case Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on:…
The Making of a German Constitution: A Slow Revolution
The history of constitutional development in nineteenth-century Germany normally follows a plot-line of disappointment and shortcoming, typified by Wilhelm Liebknecht's bitter denunciation of the function of the Reichstag under the Imperial Constitution of 1871 as ‘a fig-leaf for absolutism’. In The Making of a German Constitution, Margaret Barber Crosby's ambitious goal is to revise this view of the limits to constitutionalism in the Kaiserreich…
Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic
The Weimar Constitution of 1919 has long served for historians and political scientists alike as the anti-model for the constitution of a weak democracy. Many would question its utility in the opening decade of the twenty-first century for the study of contemporary constitutionalisms, but Cindy Skach has analysed it to good effect as part of a critique of post-1991 constitutional developments. After the fall of the Soviet Union, many of the succe…
Formalizing the Rule of Law in Prussia: The Supreme Administrative Law Court, 1876–1914
In the epilogue to his authoritative 1957 intellectual history, The German Idea of Freedom , Leonard Krieger concluded his exploration of German political thought from the Reformation to the Second Empire by excoriating the German liberal middle class, and especially the National Liberal Party, for its compromise with the authoritarian state and the landed aristocracy. He singled out for particular scorn the Rechtsstaat theory of Rudolf Gneist: R…
Comparing Comparisons: Disciplines and the Sonderweg
Inspired in part by a recent exchange in Central European History in which Volker Berghahn and Margaret Lavinia Anderson debated trends in the historiography of the Wilhelmian era of the Kaiserreich, Marcus Kreuzer offers to historians the perspective of a political scientist on what he calls the neglected issue of the “parliamentarization” of the imperial regime over its last two decades. From the starting point of an interpretive dispute about …
Codification and Normativity: Catalan “Exception” and European “Norm”
At the crossroads of sociology and history, scholars trained in different disciplines write legal history while engaged in a protracted guerilla war that focuses upon notions of normativity. Law and legal development as objects of investigation evoke in the sociology of law the very essence of normativity: what is law if not codified norms, and thus itself subject, perhaps, to norms of development or at least rationality? Conversely, legal histor…
Judicial Independence and Political Representation: Prussian Judges as Parliamentary Deputies, 1849–1913
The outrageous history of German judges during the Third Reich should not so structure historical research as to distract historians from examining their role in the nineteenth century. Prussian judges played an important role in electoral politics by serving as parliamentary deputies between 1849 and 1913. This essay poses and answers two questions: What was the political, legal, and social setting that led to judges sewing in parliament? And, w…
Identity, Difference, and Enlightenment Heritage(s): Comment on “The Right to Be Punished”
Markus Dirk Dubber has provided the readers of the Review with an erudite and fascinating essay that traces a change in modern western penal thought since the Enlightenment. What he presents is a very brave attempt to mount a left critique not only of contemporary vicious trends toward the escalation of retributive criminal penalties, but also of the therapeutic concepts of fundamental difference that have characterized rehabilitationist theories…
Von der wohlwollenden Despotie zur Herrschaft des Rechts. Entwicklungsstufen der amerikanischen Besatzung Deutschlands 1944-1949
Journal Article Von Der Wohlwollenden Despotie Zur Herrschaft Des Rechts. Entwicklungsstufen Der Amerikanischen Besatzung Deutschlands 1944-1949. By Dieter Waibel. Zwischen Kontinuität und Fremdbestimmung. Zum Einfluß Der Besatzungsmächte Auf Die Deutsche und Japanische Recht-Sordnung 1945 Bis 1950. Edited by Bernhard Diestelkamp, Zentaro Kitagawa, Josef Kreiner, Junichi Murakami, Knut Wolfgang Nörr, & Nobuyoshi Toshitani Get access Von Der Wohlw…
Frederick William IV and the Prussian Monarchy, 1840-1861
From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878-1933
Journal Article From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878–1933 Get access Ledford Kenneth F., From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878–1933. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxxv, 351 pp. $49.95. Lawrence D. Stokes Lawrence D. Stokes Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41, Issue 4, October 1997, Pag…
The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia: Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815-70
German Lawyers and the State in the Weimar Republic
Over the course of the late winter and spring of 1933, the German Bar Association (DAV), along with most other institutions in Germany, submitted to “coordination” by the new National Socialist regime. Coordination in reality meant a takeover of the private legal profession by younger lawyers who were National Socialist activists, directed from Berlin. The traditional leadership of the German bar permitted itself to be replaced by newcomers, form…
The German Experience of Professionalization: Modern Learned Professions and Their Organizations from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Hitler Era . Charles E. McClelland
Stadt und Burgertum im 19. Jahrhundert
Lawyers, Liberalism, and Procedure: The German Imperial Justice Laws of 1877–79
Although Franz Schnabel described the nineteenth century as the “century of the formal Rechtsstaat ,” most political and social historians of the German Kaiserreich have paid surprisingly little attention to the legal aspect of the development of society and polity. Textbooks in German history contain only brief mention of the enactment of legal reforms, either naming them without comment or subsuming them under administrative initiatives of the …
The Unfree Professions: German Lawyers, Teachers, and Engineers, 1900-1950
Burgertum in Deutschland
Lawyers, Liberalism, and Procedure: The German Imperial Justice Laws of 1877–79
Although Franz Schnabel described the nineteenth century as the “century of the formal Rechtsstaat ,” most political and social historians of the German Kaiserreich have paid surprisingly little attention to the legal aspect of the development of society and polity. Textbooks in German history contain only brief mention of the enactment of legal reforms, either naming them without comment or subsuming them under administrative initiatives of the …
Comparing Comparisons: Disciplines and the Sonderweg
Inspired in part by a recent exchange in Central European History in which Volker Berghahn and Margaret Lavinia Anderson debated trends in the historiography of the Wilhelmian era of the Kaiserreich, Marcus Kreuzer offers to historians the perspective of a political scientist on what he calls the neglected issue of the “parliamentarization” of the imperial regime over its last two decades. From the starting point of an interpretive dispute about …
Formalizing the Rule of Law in Prussia: The Supreme Administrative Law Court, 1876–1914
In the epilogue to his authoritative 1957 intellectual history, The German Idea of Freedom , Leonard Krieger concluded his exploration of German political thought from the Reformation to the Second Empire by excoriating the German liberal middle class, and especially the National Liberal Party, for its compromise with the authoritarian state and the landed aristocracy. He singled out for particular scorn the Rechtsstaat theory of Rudolf Gneist: R…
Codification and Normativity: Catalan “Exception” and European “Norm”
At the crossroads of sociology and history, scholars trained in different disciplines write legal history while engaged in a protracted guerilla war that focuses upon notions of normativity. Law and legal development as objects of investigation evoke in the sociology of law the very essence of normativity: what is law if not codified norms, and thus itself subject, perhaps, to norms of development or at least rationality? Conversely, legal histor…
Judicial Independence and Political Representation: Prussian Judges as Parliamentary Deputies, 1849–1913
The outrageous history of German judges during the Third Reich should not so structure historical research as to distract historians from examining their role in the nineteenth century. Prussian judges played an important role in electoral politics by serving as parliamentary deputies between 1849 and 1913. This essay poses and answers two questions: What was the political, legal, and social setting that led to judges sewing in parliament? And, w…
German Lawyers and the State in the Weimar Republic
Over the course of the late winter and spring of 1933, the German Bar Association (DAV), along with most other institutions in Germany, submitted to “coordination” by the new National Socialist regime. Coordination in reality meant a takeover of the private legal profession by younger lawyers who were National Socialist activists, directed from Berlin. The traditional leadership of the German bar permitted itself to be replaced by newcomers, form…
Burgertum in Deutschland
The Unfree Professions: German Lawyers, Teachers, and Engineers, 1900-1950
Stadt und Burgertum im 19. Jahrhundert
Lawyers, Liberalism, and Procedure: The German Imperial Justice Laws of 1877–79
Although Franz Schnabel described the nineteenth century as the “century of the formal Rechtsstaat ,” most political and social historians of the German Kaiserreich have paid surprisingly little attention to the legal aspect of the development of society and polity. Textbooks in German history contain only brief mention of the enactment of legal reforms, either naming them without comment or subsuming them under administrative initiatives of the …
The German Experience of Professionalization: Modern Learned Professions and Their Organizations from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Hitler Era . Charles E. McClelland
German Lawyers and the State in the Weimar Republic
Over the course of the late winter and spring of 1933, the German Bar Association (DAV), along with most other institutions in Germany, submitted to “coordination” by the new National Socialist regime. Coordination in reality meant a takeover of the private legal profession by younger lawyers who were National Socialist activists, directed from Berlin. The traditional leadership of the German bar permitted itself to be replaced by newcomers, form…
The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia: Conservatives, Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815-70
Frederick William IV and the Prussian Monarchy, 1840-1861
From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878-1933
Journal Article From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878–1933 Get access Ledford Kenneth F., From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878–1933. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxxv, 351 pp. $49.95. Lawrence D. Stokes Lawrence D. Stokes Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41, Issue 4, October 1997, Pag…
Identity, Difference, and Enlightenment Heritage(s): Comment on “The Right to Be Punished”
Markus Dirk Dubber has provided the readers of the Review with an erudite and fascinating essay that traces a change in modern western penal thought since the Enlightenment. What he presents is a very brave attempt to mount a left critique not only of contemporary vicious trends toward the escalation of retributive criminal penalties, but also of the therapeutic concepts of fundamental difference that have characterized rehabilitationist theories…
Von der wohlwollenden Despotie zur Herrschaft des Rechts. Entwicklungsstufen der amerikanischen Besatzung Deutschlands 1944-1949
Journal Article Von Der Wohlwollenden Despotie Zur Herrschaft Des Rechts. Entwicklungsstufen Der Amerikanischen Besatzung Deutschlands 1944-1949. By Dieter Waibel. Zwischen Kontinuität und Fremdbestimmung. Zum Einfluß Der Besatzungsmächte Auf Die Deutsche und Japanische Recht-Sordnung 1945 Bis 1950. Edited by Bernhard Diestelkamp, Zentaro Kitagawa, Josef Kreiner, Junichi Murakami, Knut Wolfgang Nörr, & Nobuyoshi Toshitani Get access Von Der Wohlw…
Judicial Independence and Political Representation: Prussian Judges as Parliamentary Deputies, 1849–1913
The outrageous history of German judges during the Third Reich should not so structure historical research as to distract historians from examining their role in the nineteenth century. Prussian judges played an important role in electoral politics by serving as parliamentary deputies between 1849 and 1913. This essay poses and answers two questions: What was the political, legal, and social setting that led to judges sewing in parliament? And, w…
Codification and Normativity: Catalan “Exception” and European “Norm”
At the crossroads of sociology and history, scholars trained in different disciplines write legal history while engaged in a protracted guerilla war that focuses upon notions of normativity. Law and legal development as objects of investigation evoke in the sociology of law the very essence of normativity: what is law if not codified norms, and thus itself subject, perhaps, to norms of development or at least rationality? Conversely, legal histor…
Comparing Comparisons: Disciplines and the Sonderweg
Inspired in part by a recent exchange in Central European History in which Volker Berghahn and Margaret Lavinia Anderson debated trends in the historiography of the Wilhelmian era of the Kaiserreich, Marcus Kreuzer offers to historians the perspective of a political scientist on what he calls the neglected issue of the “parliamentarization” of the imperial regime over its last two decades. From the starting point of an interpretive dispute about …
Formalizing the Rule of Law in Prussia: The Supreme Administrative Law Court, 1876–1914
In the epilogue to his authoritative 1957 intellectual history, The German Idea of Freedom , Leonard Krieger concluded his exploration of German political thought from the Reformation to the Second Empire by excoriating the German liberal middle class, and especially the National Liberal Party, for its compromise with the authoritarian state and the landed aristocracy. He singled out for particular scorn the Rechtsstaat theory of Rudolf Gneist: R…
Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic
The Weimar Constitution of 1919 has long served for historians and political scientists alike as the anti-model for the constitution of a weak democracy. Many would question its utility in the opening decade of the twenty-first century for the study of contemporary constitutionalisms, but Cindy Skach has analysed it to good effect as part of a critique of post-1991 constitutional developments. After the fall of the Soviet Union, many of the succe…
The Making of a German Constitution: A Slow Revolution
The history of constitutional development in nineteenth-century Germany normally follows a plot-line of disappointment and shortcoming, typified by Wilhelm Liebknecht's bitter denunciation of the function of the Reichstag under the Imperial Constitution of 1871 as ‘a fig-leaf for absolutism’. In The Making of a German Constitution, Margaret Barber Crosby's ambitious goal is to revise this view of the limits to constitutionalism in the Kaiserreich…
Antisemitismus vor Gericht: Debatten uber die juristische Ahndung judenfeindlicher Agitation in Deutschland (1879-1960)
Journal Article Antisemitismus vor Gericht: Debatten über die juristische Ahndung judenfeindlicher Agitation in Deutschland (1879–1960) Get access Antisemitismus vor Gericht: Debatten über die juristische Ahndung judenfeindlicher Agitation in Deutschland (1879–1960). By Christoph Jahr. Frankfurt: Campus. 2011. 475pp. €39.90 (paperback). Kenneth F. Ledford Kenneth F. Ledford Case Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on:…
Machtvolle Verhandlungen: Zur Kulturgeschichte der deutschen Strafjustiz 1879–1924
Alexandra Ortmann has written an important book that represents a crucial new direction in understanding the layered uses and meanings of criminal law and procedure during an era in which German legal forms and institutions provided models for study and emulation around the world. A revised version of a history dissertation from the University of Göttingen, this book ranks with the work of the author’s dissertation director, Rebekka Habermas, as …
Intellectual, Institutional, and Technological Transitions: Central European History , 2004–2014
Volumes 38 to 47 of Central European History , which appeared from July 2004 to June 2014, represented years of fundamental transition in the life of the journal and of its sponsoring society: then the Conference Group for Central European History, now the Central European History Society. This fundamental transition manifested itself in three forms: institutional formality, both of the journal and of the Conference Group/Society; publishing orga…
M ischa S uter . Rechtstrieb: Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus, 1800–1900
In Rechtstrieb: Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus, 1800–1900, Mischa Suter has written a fascinating and broadly important book about a topic that might appear tedious and trivial: the judicial enforcement of debt. Suter weaves together theoretical innovations with detailed studies of individual agency in several cantons of Switzerland during the nineteenth century to make an important contribution to the emerging new history o…
Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law James Q. Whitman
Jim Whitman’s book-length essay makes a bold argument in modest language. Repeatedly questioning the fairness of asking whether American legislative models influenced the Nuremberg Citizenship and Blood Laws of September 1935, Whitman methodically frames an inescapable truth: Nazi lawyers who drafted legislation to exclude Jews from German society consistently turned to American law for guidance. And the more radical the Nazi lawyers, the stronge…
Law, History, and Justice: Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century Annette Weinke
Annette Weinke’s deeply researched, tightly argued, and insightful book is a welcome translation of the German original, published in 2016 by Wallstein Verlag as Gewalt, Geschichte, Gerechtigkeit: Transnationale Debatten über deutsche Staatsverbrechen im 20. Jahrhundert. The clear and careful translation by Nicholas Evangelos Levis makes available Weinke’s careful and creative analysis to a non-German-reading audience interested in law, internati…
Citizens into Dishonored Felons: Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806–1933
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