Socialism and Legal History The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe

This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments. It will be valuable for those working in areas of Legal History, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law and European Studies.

About the author

Ville Erkkilä is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Hans-Peter Haferkamp is Full Professor of Private Law and History of German Law. He is the Director of the Institute of Modern History of Private Law, German and Rhenish Legal History, University of Cologne

Summary

This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments. It will be valuable for those working in areas of Legal History, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law and European Studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ville Erkkilä (Editor), Ville Erkkila (Editor), Hans-Peter Haferkamp (Editor)
• Authors: Ville Haferkamp Erkkila, Hans-Peter Haferkamp
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.11.2020
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9780367414757
• ISBN: 978-0-367-41475-7
• Pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Research in Legal History
• Subjects: History, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, SED, LAW / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Historiography, German Civil Code, Historiography, Ancient Rome, Far-left political ideologies and movements, West Germany, Marxism & Communism, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, East Central Europe, FRG, Contemporary Society, German legal history, Soviet occupation zone, Latvian SSR, legal historiography, SED Member, Estonian SSR, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, European legal tradition, Baltic German, Soviet legal history, WLT, Tartu State University, Marxist Leninist Dogma, Czasopismo Prawno Historyczne, German Legal Science, Leningrad State University, Hungarian Civil Code, Socialist legal historiography, Jena Chair, legal historians