David Fraser is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Nottingham. His teaching interests include legal theory and legal history. He has been a Visitor at the University of British Columbia, the University of Texas, Austin, the European University Institute, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Museum, and the Groupe de Recherche sur l’Eugénisme et le Racisme, l’Université de Paris VII. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London.
His book, The Fragility of Law: Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940-1945 (Routledge: 2009) was awarded the Hart Book Prize by the Socio-Legal Studies Association of the United Kingdom. Together with his co-author, Frank Caestecker of the University Ghent, he was awarded the Surrency Prize by the American Society for Legal History for his article ‘Jews or Germans? Nationality Legislation and the Restoration of Liberal Democracy in Western Europe after the Holocaust.’
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Books
“Honorary Protestants”: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997, (University of Toronto Press, 2015), approx. 504 pp
Other Legal History Publications
Daviborshch’s Cart: Narrating the Holocaust in Australian War Crimes Trials (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2010)
The Fragility of Law: Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940-1945 (Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2009)
The Jews of the Channel Islands and the Rule of Law, 1940-1945: ’Quite contrary to the principles of British justice’, (Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2000)
‘Jews or Germans? Nationality Legislation and the Restoration of Liberal Democracy in Western Europe after the Holocaust’ (with Frank Caestecker), Law & History Review 31 (2013), 391-422
‘Shadows of Law, Shadows of the Shoah: Towards a Legal History of the Nazi Killing Machine’ 32 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 32 (2012) 401-19
‘The Extraterritorial Application of the Nuremberg Laws: Rassenschande and “Mixed” Marriages in European Liberal Democracies’ (with Frank Caestecker), Journal of the History of International Law 10 (2008) 35-81
