--- description: Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School and the author most recently of Hitler's American Model. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # James Whitman ## James Whitman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School and the author most recently of [_Hitler's American Model_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691172420/?tag=timecom-20). ## James Whitman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Mar 21, 2017 ### [Why the Nazis Loved America](https://time.com/4703586/nazis-america-race-law/) The terrible history of racist laws [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/james-whitman/","name":"James Whitman"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/james-whitman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/james-whitman/"},"name":"James Whitman","jobTitle":null,"description":"Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School and the author most recently of Hitler's American Model.","url":"https://time.com/author/james-whitman/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```