Herlinde Pauer-Studer is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. From 1997 to 1998 she was Fellow at the E. J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, and in 2006 Fulbright Scholar, New York University. In 2016 she held the Austrian Chair at Stanford University. Her publications include Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge (co-authored with J. David Velleman, 2015).

1. Introduction; 2. From the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich; 3. The Führer state: facts and ideology; 4. National Socialist criminal law; 5. Racial legislation; 6. Police law; 7. The SS jurisdiction; 8. The moralization of law in National Socialism.