Justifying Injustice: Legal Theory in Nazi Germany (Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law)

Herlinde Pauer-Studer

ISBN 10: 1316612163 / ISBN 13: 9781316612163

Published by Cambridge University Press 2022-08-11, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Justifying Injustice: Legal Theory in Nazi Germany (Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2022-08-11
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316612163
• ISBN 13: 9781316612163
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Herlinde Pauer-Studer is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. From 1997 to 1998 she was Fellow at the E. J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, and in 2006 Fulbright Scholar, New York University. In 2016 she held the Austrian Chair at Stanford University. Her publications include Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge (co-authored with J. David Velleman, 2015).