Justifying Injustice - Legal Theory in Nazi Germany

Examines Nazi legal theory, the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the regime's escalating atrocities.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. From the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich; 3. The Führer state: facts and ideology; 4. National Socialist criminal law; 5. Racial legislation; 6. Police law; 7. The SS jurisdiction; 8. The moralization of law in National Socialism.

About the author

Herlinde Pauer-Studer is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. From 1997 to 1998 she was Fellow at the E. J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, and in 2006 Fulbright Scholar, New York University. In 2016 she held the Austrian Chair at Stanford University. Her publications include Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge (co-authored with J. David Velleman, 2015).

Summary

Examining how crucial parts of the distorted normative order of the Third Reich evolved and were justified by regime-loyal legal theorists, this book explains how law can bend to a political ideology and fail to keep state power from transgressing elementary standards of humanity and the rule of law.

Product details

• Authors: Herlinde Pauer-Studer, Pauer-Studer Herlinde
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781316612163
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61216-3
• No. of pages: 281
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, Germany, LAW / Constitutional, Fascism & Nazism, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Jurisprudence & general issues, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Jurisprudence and general issues, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general