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About James Whitman
- James Q.
- Whitman is an American lawyer and Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale University.He graduated from Yale University with a B.A.
- and a J.D., from Columbia University with a M.A., and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D.
- He was a Guggenheim Fellow.
- In 2015, he was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven) Whitman's 2017 book, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, received critical acclaim.
- Neoconservative scholar Joshua Muravchik dismissed the book as mere reductio ad Hitlerum.In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AASS).
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