Darker legacies of law in Europe : the shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and its legal traditions

Darker legacies of law in Europe : the shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and its legal traditions

Darker legacies of law in Europe : the shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and its legal traditions

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Edition Details

  • Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, Christian Joerges
  • Language: English
  • Jurisdiction(s): England
  • Publication Information: Oxford : Hart, 2003
  • Publication Type (Medium): Conference papers and proceedings, History, Congresses, Congre?s
  • Material: Conference publication
  • Type: Book
  • Permalink: http://books.lawlegal.eu/darker-legacies-of-law-in-europe-the-shadow-of-national-socialism-and-fascism-over-europe-and-its-legal-traditions/ (Stable identifier)

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XVI, 416 pages ; 25 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Darker legacies of law in Europe : the shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and its legal traditions is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

  • Publisher: Hart
  • Responsable Person: edited by Christian Joerges and Navraj Singh Ghaleigh ; with a prologue by Michael Stolleis and an epilogue by J.H.H. Weiler.
  • Publication Date: 2003
  • Country/State: England
  • Number of Editions: 12 editions
  • First edition Date: 2003
  • Last edition Date: 2003
  • General Notes: Contributions first presented at a conference on “Perceptions of Europe and Perspectives on a European Order in Legal Scholarship During the Era of Fascism and National Socialism” in September 2000 with others from a year long seminar series running from Spring 2001.
  • Languages: English
  • Library of Congress Code: KJC89
  • Dewey Code: 340.07114
  • ISBN: 1841133108 9781841133102
  • OCLC: 51780997

Main Contents

Prologue. Reluctance to glance in the mirror. The changing face of German jurisprudence after 1933 and post-1945 / Michael Stolleis
pt. I. Continuity and rupture. The problem of perceptions of National Socialist law or: was there a constitutional theory of National Socialism? / Oliver Lepsius ; Looking into the brightly lit room: braving Carl Schmitt in 'Europe' / Navraj Singh Ghaleigh
pt. II. The era of National Socialism and fascism. The fascist theory of contract / Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Alessandro Somma ; 'Spheres of influence' and 'Vo?lkisch' legal thought: Reinhard Ho?hn's notion of Europe / Ingo J. Hueck ; 'The outsider does not see al the game … ': perceptions of German law in Anglo-American legal scholarship, 1933-1940 / David Fraser ; 'A distorted image of ourselves': Nazism, 'liberal' societies and the qualities of difference / Laurence Lustgarten
pt. III. Continuity and reconfiguration. Carl Schmitt's Europe: cultural, imperial and spatial, proposals for European integration, 1923-1955 / John P. McCormick ; Culture and the rationality of law from Weimar to Maastricht / J. Peter Burgess ; Europe a grossraum? Shifting legal conceptualisations of the integration project / Christian Joerges ; From grossraum to condominium: a comment / Neil Walker ; Formalism and anti-formalism in French and German judicial methodology / Vivian Grosswald Curran ; Judicial methodology and fascist and Nazi law / Matthias Mahlmann ; On Nazi 'honour' and the new European 'dignity' / James Q. Whitman ; On fascist honour and human dignity: a sceptical response / Gerald L. Neuman ; Corporatist doctrine and the 'new European order' / Luca Nogler
pt. IV. Responses to National Socialism and fascism in national legal cultures. The German impact on fascist public law doctrine: Costantino Mortati's material constitution / Massimo La Morre ; Mortati and the science of public law: a comment on La Torre / Giacinto Della Cananea ; From republicanism to fascist ideology under the early franquismo / Agusti?n Jose? Mene?ndez ; Authoritarian constitutionalism: Austrian constitutional doctrine 1933 to 1938 and its legacy / Alexander Somek
Epilogue / J.H.H. Weiler.

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