Law in West German democracy : seventy years of history as seen through German courts / by Hugh Ridley.
2020
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Author
Title
Law in West German democracy : seventy years of history as seen through German courts / by Hugh Ridley.
Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Description
xiv, 328 pages ; 25 cm.
Series
Studies in Central European histories ; v. 66. 1547-1217
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: The historical situation of law in the Federal Republic
The trial of Friedrich Flick
Adjusting the political landscape : banning the KPD
The Lüth case : at what price freedom of expression?
Four murders, and reflections on court-reporting in the Federal German press
Personal matters in court : homosexuality and abortion
The Spiegel Affair
The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
The 1970s : the campaign against radicals : ideology becomes the crime
Chasing after sympathizers : threats to the rule of law
The rub of the green : a range of environmental cases
Danger from the right.
The trial of Friedrich Flick
Adjusting the political landscape : banning the KPD
The Lüth case : at what price freedom of expression?
Four murders, and reflections on court-reporting in the Federal German press
Personal matters in court : homosexuality and abortion
The Spiegel Affair
The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
The 1970s : the campaign against radicals : ideology becomes the crime
Chasing after sympathizers : threats to the rule of law
The rub of the green : a range of environmental cases
Danger from the right.
Summary
"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 régime. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Ridley, Hugh, Law in West German democracy Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
Call Number
KK65 .R53 2020
Language
English
ISBN
9789004410602 hardcover
9004410600 hardcover
9789004414471 electronic book
9004410600 hardcover
9789004414471 electronic book
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