The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat write by Jens Meierhenrich. This book was released on 2018. The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an intellectual history of Ernst Fraenkel's classic The Dual State (1941), recently republished by OUP, and one of the most erudite books on the theory of dictatorship ever written. It was the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and rise of Nazism, and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's Germany.
The Legacies of Law
The Legacies of Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legacies of Law write by Jens Meierhenrich. This book was released on 2008-10-13. The Legacies of Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on South Africa during the period 1650–2000, this book examines the role of law in making democracy work in changing societies. The Legacies of Law sheds light on the neglected relationship between path dependence and the law. Meierhenrich argues that legal norms and institutions, even illiberal ones, have an important - and hitherto undertheorized - structuring effect on democratic outcomes. Under certain conditions, law appears to reduce uncertainty in democratization by invoking common cultural backgrounds and experiences. In instances where interacting adversaries share qua law reasonably convergent mental models, transitions from authoritarian rule are shown to be less intractable. Meierhenrich's historical analysis of the evolution of law - and its effects - in South Africa during the period 1650–2000, compared with a short study of Chile from 1830–1990, shows how, and when, legal norms and institutions serve as historical causes to both liberal and illiberal rule.
Law in West German Democracy
Law in West German Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law in West German Democracy write by Hugh Ridley. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Law in West German Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In their time these important court cases influenced the development of a democratic legal system in a country struggling to overcome Hitler’s legacy. Today they cast a unique light on seventy years of West German social and political history.
The Last Utopia
The Last Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Utopia write by Samuel Moyn. This book was released on 2012-03-05. The Last Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law
The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law write by Jens Meierhenrich. This book was released on 2021-08-12. The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law, one of the most frequently invoked-and least understood-ideas of legal and political thought and policy practice. It offers a comprehensive re-assessment by leading scholars of one of the world's most cherished traditions. This high-profile collection provides the first global and interdisciplinary account of the histories, moralities, pathologies and trajectories of the rule of law. Unique in conception, and critical in its approach, it evaluates, breaks down, and subverts conventional wisdom about the rule of law for the twenty-first century.
