Imperfect justice: an East-West German diary

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Edition Details

Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Inga Markovits
Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): England
Publication Information: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
Publication Type (Medium): History
Type: Book
Other titles: Abwicklung.
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204 pages ; 24 cm

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Useful for students learning an area of law, Imperfect justice: an East-West German diary is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Responsable Person: Inga Markovits.
Publication Date: 1995
Country/State: England
Number of Editions: 7 editions
First edition Date: 1995
Last edition Date: 1995
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KKA190
Dewey Code: 349.431
ISBN: 0198258143 9780198258148 0198259611 9780198259619
OCLC: 31604485

Publisher Description:

This book is an account of the sudden death of Socialist law in East Germany and of the reacions, hopes and fears of some of its survivors. What happens when a legal system is replaced overnight by its ideological opposite? When people used to being coddled and disciplined by their law have to adjust to a State which expects them to look out for themselves? When men and women trained to serve and to legitimate their political system have to explain their complicity in its corruption? And when in this process of national soul-searching it is the Western VIctors alone who may ask all the questions? When the Wall collapsed, all questions could be asked, but speed was of the essence. Memories were fresh and eyewitnesses, still reeling from the blows of political change, were eager to talk about the world they so suddenly lost. The spontaneity of the author's encounters with lawyers, judges and law professors is preserved in the pages of this diary and will leave an indelible impression upon readers. No lawyer or lay person interested in the future of Germany, the history of Communism and the study of comparative law can fail to be moved and fascinated by this book.

Imperfect justice: an East-West German diary

Imperfect justice: an East-West German diary