Description
| Product ID: | 9781316612163 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Justifying Injustice |
| Subtitle: | Legal Theory in Nazi Germany |
| Authors: | Author: Herlinde Pauer-Studer |
| Page Count: | 281 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Jurisprudence and general issues, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Fascism & Nazism, Jurisprudence & general issues, Constitutional & administrative law, Germany, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | 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. Post-war legal scholars commonly consider the Third Reich''s judicial system to be the paradigm of ''evil law''. By examining how crucial parts of this distorted normative order evolved and were justified by regime-loyal legal theorists, we can appreciate 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. From 1933 to 1939, a flood of publications reflected on the question of how to adapt law to the political ends of National Socialism, debating both the normative and constitutional foundations of the National Socialist state, and the proper form and content of criminal and police law in this new political framework. These debates, the main threads of which are central to this book, reveal the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the Nazi regime''s escalating atrocities. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-11 |
