Douglas G. Morris, PhD., J.D., is a retired criminal defense attorney for indigent clients (for 30+ years with Federal Defenders of New York), and a legal historian (now an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School, teaching a seminar titled “The Rule of Law, Nazi Law and War Crimes Prosecutions”).  He is author of Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler’s Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany (University of Michigan Press, 2005).  His next book, forthcoming in October 2026 from Cambridge University Press, is Bonhoeffer, the Jews, and Anti-Nazi Resistance: A Secular History.