Public Law in Germany - A Historical Introduction From the 16th to the 21st Century

Zusatztext The book succeeds admirably ... in presenting to a broader readership the arc of German public law thinking since its early-modern origins. Informationen zum Autor Michael Stolleis is a German jurist and legal historian. He is professor emeritus of public law and legal history at the Goethe University Frankfurt. From 1991 to 2009 he was the Director of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung A concise and simplified summary and translation into English of the author's award-winning longer work Geschichte des öffentlichen Rechts. It offers students an introduction to the history of German public law from the sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The Emancipation from Roman Law and the Change in the Sources of Constitutional Law 3: Elements of the Emerging Public Law 4: Reichspublizistik, Natural Law, International Law, and Gute Policy 5: Public Law Between Revolution and Restoration 6: St. Paul's Church [Paulskirche] 7: Imperial State Law 8: Administrative Law in the Early Industrial State 9: The Theory of State Law and Administrative Law under the Weimar Constitution 10: Controversies over Method and General Theories of the State 11: Administrative Law in the Weimar Republic 12: The National Socialist State and Its Public Law 13: Germany's Legal Status, Reconstruction, Two States 14: The New 'Value System' [Wertordnung] and the Restoration of the Rechtsstaat 15: The Social and Interventionist State of the Federal Republic 16: The State Law, International Law, and Administrative Law of the GDR 17: European Law and International Law 18: Reunification 19: Globalization and the Future of the State 20: Conclusion

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• Authors: Michael Stolleis, Michael (Professor Emeritus of Public La Stolleis, Stolleis Michael
• Assisted by: Thomas Dunlap (Translation), Dunlap Thomas (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780198798965
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879896-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, LAW / General, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Civil Law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Public Administration, Legal History, Systems of law: civil codes / civil law, Constitutional & administrative law, Legal system: general, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Legal systems: general, Civil codes / Civil law