Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis

Bys: Arthur Jacobson and Bernhard Schlink

Book Overview

This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Federal Republic, and today its lessons can be of use to states throughout the world. Weimar legal theory is a key to understanding the experience of nations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520236815
• ISBN13: 9780520236813
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"