Fascist and National-Socialist Criminal Law and the Persecution of a Jewish Italian Criminal Law Scholar: the Case of Marcello Fi

Abstract

Marcello Finzi was Professor of Criminal Law in the Italian University of Modena. As other Italian Jews Professors and public officers, he was banned of his academic position in 1938 by application of the Racial Law approved by the fascist regime of Mussolini, following the model of the Racial Law approved by the nazi government of Adolf Hitler. He emigrated then with his family to Cordoba (Argentina), where he continued teaching as Professor for Criminal Law until his return to Italy after the fascist regime disappeared. He died in Italy in 1956.