Michael Stolleis: 7 books
The Law under the Swastika
Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1997
In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession. Until the late 1960s, historians of the Nazi judicial system were mostly judges...
Öffentliches Recht in Deutschland
Eine Einführung in seine Geschichte
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Die „Geschichte des öffentlichen Rechts in Deutschland“ von Michael Stolleis gehört zu den herausragenden Gesamtdarstellungen unserer Zeit. Auf mehr als 2000 Druckseiten entfaltet ihr Autor darin weit über den wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Rahmen hinaus ein rechtshistorisches Panorama Deutschlands...
The Eye of the Law
Two Essays on Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
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 being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity...
Margarethe und der Mönch
Rechtsgeschichte in Geschichten
Language: German
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Der renommierte Rechtshistoriker Michael Stolleis versammelt in diesem Buch kuriose Geschichten aus Recht und Literatur vom Spätmittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Menschen geraten aneinander, geben ihrer Streitlust nach, prozessieren jahrelang – Stoff für amüsante oder melancholische Betrachtungen...
Origins of the German Welfare State
Social Policy in Germany to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provides a perceptive overview of the history of social security and social welfare in Germany from early modern times to the end of World War...
by Michael Stolleis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
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 centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system...
Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe
Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew...