In June 1934, Schmitt was appointed editor-in-chief of the Nazi newspaper for lawyers, the "Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung" ("German Jurists' Journal"). In July he published in it "The Leader Protects the Law ("Der Führer schützt das Recht")", a justification of the political murders of the Night of the Long Knives with Hitler's authority as the "highest form of administrative justice ("höchste Form administrativer Justiz")". Schmitt presented himself as a radical anti-semite and was the chairman of an October 1936 law teachers' convention in Berlin at which he demanded that German law be cleansed of the "Jewish spirit ("jüdischem Geist")" and that all Jewish scientists' publications be marked with a small symbol.