| Law in West German Democracy: Seventy Years of History as Seen Through German Courts Contributor(s): Ridley (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004410600 ISBN-13: 9789004410602 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $131.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - History | Modern - 20th Century - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Series: Studies in Central European Histories |
| Physical Information: 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Law in West German Democracy relates the history of the Federal Republic of Germany as seen through a series of significant trials conducted between 1947 and 2017, explaining how these trials came to take place, the legal issues which they raised, and their importance to the development of democracy in a country slowly emerging from a murderous and criminal r gime. It thus illustrates the central issues of the new republic. If, as a Minister for Justice once remarked, crime can be seen as 'the reverse image of any political system, the shadow cast by the social and economic structures of the day', it is natural to use court cases to illuminate the eventful history of the Federal Republic's first seventy years. |