The Rule of Law Under Siege
Selected Essays of Franz L. Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2020
282 pages
978-0-520-91734-7 (ISBN)
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In the pathbreaking essays collected here, Neumann and Kirchheimer demonstrate that the death of democracy and the rise of fascism during the first half of the twentieth century suggest crucial lessons for contemporary political and legal scholars. The volume includes writings on constitutionalism, political freedom, Nazism, sovereignty, and both Nazi and liberal law. Most important, the Frankfurt authors point to the continuing efficacy of the rule of law as an instrument for regulating and restraining state authority, as well as ominous evidence of the rule of law's fragility in modern liberal democracy.
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The Rule of Law Under Siege
Selected Essays of Franz L. Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- PART I. The Destruction of Weimar Democracy and the Debate on Legality and Legitimacy
- ONE. The Decay of German Democracy
- TWO. Legality and Legitimacy
- THREE. Remarks on Carl Schmitt's Legality and Legitimacy
- PART II. Law and Politics in the Authoritarian State
- FOUR. The Change in the Function of Law in Modern Society1
- FIVE. State Structure and Law in the Third Reich
- SIX. Criminal Law in National Socialist Germany
- PART III. Toward a Critical Democratic Theory
- SEVEN. The Concept of Political Freedom'
- EIGHT. Labor Law in Modern Society1
- NINE. The Rechtsstaat as Magic Wall
- INDEX
