The name Otto Kahn-Freund will likely be familiar to readers of this journal, if not as that of a leading scholar of law during the second half of the twentieth century, then as that of a regular contributor to the Modern Law Review. Such is the continued fascination and engagement with Kahn-Freund’s work that the publication of this new biography is likely to be met with some interest. While this new contribution regrettably pays almost no heed to English language sources on Kahn-Freund’s life or English-language analyses of his work, it it remains of significant interest, however, firstly, as a more or less comprehensive bibliography of German language sources relating to Kahn-Freund’s life and work; secondly, for the way in which Ludyga has used new archival research to bring to life Kahn-Freund’s experiences in the Weimar Republic as a socialist, a scholar, and a Jew; and, lastly, for the story it tells of his political activism during the Second World War.

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