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Jens Meierhenrich is a scholar of international relations at London School of Economics who directs the university's Centre for International Studies. [1]

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  1. Science, London School of Economics and Political. "Jens Meierhenrich". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  2. Penna, David (2010). "Jens Meierhenrich. The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652–2000. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvii + 385 pp. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth". African Studies Review. 53 (1): 201–202. doi:10.1353/arw.0.0325. S2CID   142830004.
  3. Hein, Patrick (2016). "Book Review: Jens Meierhenrich (ed.), Genocide: A Reader". Political Studies Review. 14 (2): 278–279. doi:10.1177/1478929916630917i. S2CID   147873523.
  4. Lancaster, Guy (2016). "Genocide : A Reader by Jens Meierhenrich (Ed.): Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014". Human Rights Review. 17 (2): 281–283. doi:10.1007/s12142-016-0406-6. S2CID   147590124.
  5. Qvortrup, Matt (2018). "Book Review: Jens Meierhenrich and Oliver Simons (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt". Political Studies Review . 16 (1). doi:10.1177/1478929917723877.
  6. Levi, Ron (2019). "The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat: An Ethnography of Nazi Law. By JensMeierhenrich. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018". Law & Society Review. 53 (2): 626–628. doi:10.1111/lasr.12409.
  7. Rottleuthner, Hubert (2020). "The remnants of the Rechtsstaat: an ethnography of Nazi law: by Jens Meierhenrich, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, 448 pp, £48 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19881-441-2". Jurisprudence. 11 (3): 476–482. doi:10.1080/20403313.2020.1807786. S2CID   225228756.
  8. Graver, Hans Petter (2020). "Jens Meierhenrich's, The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat: An Ethnography of Nazi Law". German Law Journal. 21 (4): 739–742. doi: 10.1017/glj.2020.43 . hdl: 10852/84991 .
  9. Says, Jackl (25 July 2018). "Book Review: The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat: An Ethnography of Nazi Law by Jens Meierhenrich". LSE Review of Books. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  10. Weinke, Annette (2020). "Jens Meierhenrich. The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat: An Ethnography of Nazi Law". The American Historical Review. 125 (4): 1533–1534. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz945.