"The book is part of the 5-volume series "German Social Policy", a unique multidisciplinary approach to the history of German social policy written by the doyens of their respective disciplines. The v
Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as bei
The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuri
This history of the discipline of public law in Germany covers three dramatic decades of the Twentieth century. It opens with the First World War, analyses the highly creative years of the Weimar Repu
German public law has been taught in universities since the early 17th century and continues to this day to be a dominant subject in German legal culture, especially in its modern incarnations of cons
Stolleis (public law and early modern legal history, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany with s
Was the parallel development of concepts of natural law in European jurisprudence and natural philosophy from the mid-sixteenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries merely a coincidence, a form of lin
A collaboration of leading historians of European law and philosophers of law and politics identifying and explaining the practice of interpretation of law in the 18th century. The goal: establishing
