A History of Public Law in Germany 1914-1945
ISBN13: 9780199269365ISBN10: 019926936X
Hardback,
504 pages
Apr 2004,
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Price:
$185.00 (06)Description
This history of the discipline of public law in Germany covers three dramatic decades of the Twentieth century. It opens with the First World War, analyses the highly creative years of the Weimar Republic, and recounts the decline of German public law that began in 1933 and extended to the downfall of the Third Reich.Features
- The first complete history of German public law in this period
- Follows the destruction of the rule of law during the Nazi period and discusses the complicity of the law professors in respect of the Holocaust
- Describes German public law's most creative intellectual period, covering authors such as Hans Kelsen, Carl Schmitt, Hermann Heller, and Rudolf Smend
- The original German edition of this book won (as one of a series of 3 volumes) the International Balzan Prize. The author also won the Leibniz Prize of the German Foundation of Sciences for one of the other two volumes in the set. He has thus received the two most important prizes for work in the Humanities in Germany.
About the Author(s)
Michael Stolleis is Professor at the University of Frankfurt, and Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt.
