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1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) |
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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 'Völkisch' legal thought: Reinhard Höhn'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 / Agustìn José Menéndez ; Authoritarian constitutionalism: Austrian constitutional doctrine 1933 to 1938 and its legacy / Alexander Somek -- Epilogue / J.H.H. Weiler |
| Summary |
Fascist legal theory, its uncritical acceptance of fascist legal thinking by American and British scholars of the time, and the continuing remnants of its system in extant institutions all point to the uncomfortable fact that questions of fascism, Nazism, and legal practice and theory need to be understood as a European problem of contemporary rele |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Law -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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National socialism and education -- Congresses
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Fascism and education -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
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Law -- Study and teaching -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
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LAW -- Legal Education.
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Fascism and education.
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Law.
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National socialism and education.
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Fascisme.
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Nationaal-socialisme.
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Law -- Study and teaching.
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Rechtstheorie.
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Europe.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Congressen (vorm)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Joerges, Christian
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Ghaleigh, Navraj Singh
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| ISBN |
9781847311672 |
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1847311679 |
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9781472562753 |
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1472562755 |
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