The Schmitt revival spurred renewed interest in Neumann and Kirchheimer.

Evidence

Members once assumed to be marginal, such as Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer, have gained a new hearing in the wake of a waxing interest in jurisprudential and legal questions from the Weimar era, an interest piqued in part by the vigorous reception-both on the left and the right-of the controversial jurist Carl Schmitt. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 15