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Author:   Hugh Ridley
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   66
Weight:   0.665kg
ISBN:  

9789004410602

ISBN 10:   9004410600
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   17 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Historical Situation of Law in the Federal Republic  1 Politics and the Law  2 The Centrality of Law after the Collapse of 1945  3 Institutional Structures in German Law: Basic Law and the Federal Constitutional Court  4 Statute Rather Than Common Law  5 Anomalies in a Changing Legal Code  6 History and the Law in the Federal Republic 1 The Trial of Friedrich Flick  1 Understanding the ns State  2 Who Was Flick and on What Charges Did He Appear?  3 Legal Issues  4 The Sentence  5 Assessing the Verdict  6 The Repercussions of the Flick Trial 2 Adjusting the Political Landscape: Banning the kpd  1 The Banning of Political Parties  2 Outlawing the kpd  3 The Deliberations of the BVerfG  4 The Legal Consequences of the Ban  5 Reflections on Constitutional Courts and Politics 3 The Lüth Case – at What Price Freedom of Expression?  1 The Starting-Point: Artists and Nazism  2 The Call for a Boycott  3 The Decision of the BVerfG  4 Repercussions 4 Four Murders, and Reflections on Court-Reporting in the Federal German Press  1 Reporting the Law  2 Precedents in Weimar  3 The Federal Republic  4 A Routine Murder  5 Rosemarie Nitribitt  6 Two Women in Court  7 Hetzel’s Campaign for a Retrial  8 Conclusions 5 Personal Matters in Court: Homosexuality and Abortion  1 The Legacy of the Past  2 Post-War Shifts of Policy  3 The Frankfurt Homosexual Trials  4 § 218 in the Federal Republic  5 ‘It’s Not You, Doctor, Who Have Offended Me, but the Judges’  6 The Campaign against § 218 Moves Forward  7 The Last Razzia 6 The Spiegel Affair  1 The Dimensions of the Affair  2 Old Antagonisms  3 The Principal Legal Issue: Military Secrecy  4 A Brief Consideration of the BVerfG Judgment 7 The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial  1 At Last the Silence Is Broken  2 The Implications of the Eichmann Trial  3 Auschwitz-Birkenau  4 Preparing for the Trial  5 Gathering Momentum  6 A New Type of Trial  7 Individual Moments from the Proceedings  8 Sentencing and Final Considerations  9 Final Comments 8 The 1970s: The Campaign against Radicals – Ideology Becomes the Crime  1 Prologue  2 Background to the 1970s  3 The Legal Basis of the Berufsverbot  4 Three Individual Cases  5 The Legal Issues  6 The BVerfG Judgment  7 Dissenting Judges  8 Final Thoughts 9 Chasing after Sympathizers – Threats to the Rule of Law  1 Reactions to an Act of Terror  2 An Unwanted Requiem  3 Sympathizing with Terror?  4 The Knives Come Out  5 A Chequered History of Controlling Free Speech 10 The Rub of the Green – a Range of Environmental Cases  1 Historical Prologue  2 Environmental Protection in the Federal Republic  3 Violence among the Trees  4 Chemical Pollution – ‘Everyone the Loser’  5 Reflections on a Small Victory for the Environment  6 Problems of Atomic Power: Atomkraft? Nein Danke 11 Danger from the Right  1 Post-heroic Law  2 Ten Murders  3 The Origins of Racist Violence  4 The Role of the Extreme Right  5 Institutional Failures  6 Back to the Crimes  7 Problems with the Trial  8 The Trial Appendix: Background Notes Bibliography Index

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Hugh Ridley, Ph.D., Dr. h.c. (Essen), MRIA. Emeritus Professor of German at University College Dublin. Author of books on Thomas Mann, Gottfried Benn, US-German literary relations, Darwinism, Richard Wagner and European colonial literature.

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