His key research interests are law antisemitism and the holocaust law and aesthetics contemporary social and legal theory reviews this is a dense and thought provoking work which attempts both deep and broad analysis of political thought likely to be of interest to researchers working in the fields of jurisprudence sociology philosophy and politics therese odonnell law and . Anti semitism anti semitism nazi anti semitism and the holocaust the storm of anti semitic violence loosed by nazi germany under the leadership of adolf hitler from 1933 to 1945 not only reached a terrifying intensity in germany itself but also inspired anti jewish movements elsewhere anti semitism was promulgated in france by the cagoulards french hooded men in hungary by the . Antisemitism and the persecution of jews were central the first major law to curtail the rights of jewish citizens was the law for the restoration of the professional civil service of april 7 1933 which excluded jews and the politically unreliable from civil service the new law was the german authorities first formulation of the so called aryan paragraph a regulation used to . Whilst an increasing amount of attention is being paid to laws connection or involvement with national socialism less attention is focused upon thinking through the links between law and the emergence of antisemitism as a consequence antisemitism is presented as a pre existent given as something that is the object rather than the subject of study