Law and daily life: questions for legal philosophy from November 1938

Recent attention paid by historians of the Holocaust to the years leading up to the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938 has revealed a further point of interest: the tendency to refer to this event as the end of 'daily life' for those who had been living under the Nazi anti-Jewish laws to that point. In this article, the author explores how the apparent connection revealed in these commentaries between the loss of law and the loss of a 'daily life' might be explored through the resources of legal philosophy, and specifically through Lon Fuller's interest in the quality of the subject's position in the face of law.