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German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics
Since the Enlightenment period, German-Jewish intellectuals have been prominent voices in the multi-facetted discourse on the reinterpretation of Jewish tradition in light of modern thinking. Paul Mendes-Flohr, one of the towering figures of current scholarship on German-Jewish intellectual history, has made invaluable contributions to a better understanding of the religious, cultural and political dimensions of these thinkers’ encounter with German and European culture, including the tension between their loyalty to Judaism and the often competing claims of non-Jewish society and culture. This volume assembles essays by internationally acknowledged scholars in the field who intend to hono...
The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat
This book offers an intellectual history of Ernst Fraenkel's classic The Dual State (1941), recently republished by OUP, and one of the most erudite books on the theory of dictatorship ever written. It was the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and rise of Nazism, and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's Germany.
Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution
This collection focuses on the cultural history of the police as an institution from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Contrary to most studies on the law and the state, Police Forces demonstrates how profoundly modern democracies are enveloped by more informal and less codified modes of social control. In a time when the rule of law appears to be on the retreat, 'police studies' emerges as a field in its own right. This volume helps stake out this new discipline, including the intricate link between police and the law, 'might' and 'right,' state violence, surveillance technologies, politics and resistance. Police Forces considers the question of law and order from below: alleyways, borders, police stations, law offices, bureaucracies, and the minds of administrators, in which the quotidian workings of the law unfold.
Introduction to German Law
It is thirteen years since the appearance of the successful second edition of this convenient English-language introduction to the law of Germany. This new edition covers all the significant changes and innovations that have occurred during that period, encompassing the pervasive impacts of European Union law and of globalization, as well as the greatly increased activity of the German legislature in every area addressed in this volume. With fifteen lucid chapters written by academic experts in their respective fields of law, as well as detailed bibliographies, this is the ideal starting point for research whenever a question of German law must be answered. The authors clearly explain the le...
Empire of Law
The history of exiles from Nazi Germany and the creation of the notion of a shared European legal tradition.
History of Social Law in Germany
The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazi-System and after World War II in the FRG and the GDR. The system of social welfare in Germany is one of the pillars of economic stability.
The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and system...
The Law under the Swastika
In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession. Until the late 1960s, historians of the Nazi judicial system were mostly judges and administrators from the Nazi era. According to Stolleis, they were reluctant to investigate this legal history and maintained the ideal that law could not be affected by politics. Michael Stolleis is part of a younger generation and is determined to honestly confront the past in hopes of preventing the same injustices from happening in the future. Stolleis studies a wide range of legal fie...
Die Europäische Gelehrtenrepublik Im Zeitalter Des Konfessionalismus
InhaltH. Jaumann, Respublica litteraria / Republic of Letters. Concept and Perspectives of ResearchA. Grafton, Where was Salomon's House? Eccelesiastical History and the Intellectual Origins of Bacon's New AtlantisA.G. Shelford, Confessional Division and the Republic of Letters: the Case of Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721)P.N. Muller, Making the Paris Polyglot Bible: Humanism and Orientalism in the Early Seventeenth CenturyF. Waquet, Ludovico Antonio Muratori. Le "pio letterato" a l'epreuve des faitsA. Goldgar, Singing in a Strange Land: The Republic of Letters and the Mentalite of ExileM. Volkel, Das Verhaltnis von religio patriae, confessio und eruditio bei Marx WelserC. Fasolt, Hermann Conring and the Republic of LettersM. Scattola, Gelehrte Philologie vs. Theologie: Johannes Caselius im Streit mit den Helmstedter TheologenR. Hafner, "Denn wie das buch ist, muss der leser seyn" - Allegorese und Mythopoiesis in den Hohen und hellen Sinnbildern Jonae des Helmstedter Gelehrten Hermann von der HardtG. Vogt-Spira, Die Poetik des M.H. Vida und ihre Rezeption in konfessioneller Perspektive
A History of Public Law in Germany, 1914-1945
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. Stolleis examines the dialectic of scholarship and politics against the background of long-term developments in industrial societies, the rise of the interventionist state, the shift of state law and administrative law theory, and the emergence of new disciplines (tax law, social law, labour law, business administration law). Almost all of the issues and questions that preoccup...
