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An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews, Jewishness and English Law

Awarded the 2012 SLSA book prize and Book of the Year by The Journal of Antisemitism

This book draws on six years of research involving careful scrutiny of many hundreds of legal cases, most of which had been subject to no prior academic analysis. It considers a wide range of legal sub-disciplines, including equality law, trusts and child welfare, and includes the first ever discussion of how the English judiciary has incorporated the phrase ‘the Holocaust’ in its decision-making frames. It is an extremely wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work, drawing on and contributing not just to legal studies, but also to history, sociology and literary studies, and making an important and unique contribution to critical race studies.