In the published version of this article, an error appears in the eighth sentence of the abstract.Footnote 1 The words “in designating law as life's only source” should instead be “in designating life as law's only source.” The full correct sentence should be as follows:
To his mind, both Roosevelt's and Hitler's jurists had started turning his moderate free law ideas into a radical—and dangerous—legal nihilism: in designating life as law's only source, they shunned scientific legal methods.
The author apologizes for this error.