Justice in Lüritz (eBook)

Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany

Inga Markovits (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3659-8 (ISBN)

Infos

As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court, she knew that she had finally found her mailbox. Combining her work in this extraordinary archive with interviews of former plaintiffs and defendants, judges and prosecutors, government and party functionaries, and Stasi collaborators, all in the little town she calls "e;Luritz,"e; Markovits has written a remarkable grassroots history of a legal system that set out with the utopian hopes of a few and ended in the anger and disappointment of the many. This is a story of ordinary men and women who experienced Socialist law firsthand--people who applied and used the law, trusted and resented it, manipulated and broke it, and feared and opposed it, but who all dealt with it in ways that help us understand what it meant to be a citizen in a twentieth-century Socialist state, what "e;Socialist justice"e; aimed to do, and how, in the end, it failed. Brimming with human stories of obedience and resistance, endurance and cunning, and cruelty and grief, Justice in Luritz is ultimately a book about much more than the law, or Socialism, or East Germany.

Autor

Inga Markovits holds the "Friends of Jamail" Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2010
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Absenteeism • Accounting • Adjudication • Administration of Justice • Administrative Court • Admonition • Allegation • Amtsgericht • annoyance • appellate court • Archive • Arrest warrant • attempt • Black Market • Boredom • bureaucrat • Capitalism • Career • Censure • Child Support • Contract • counsel • Crime • criminal investigation • Criminal Law • Criminal Procedure • Criticism • culprit • Decree • defamation • defendant • Desk • Directive (European Union) • Dissident • Divorce • Divorce law by country • East Germany • Embarrassment • embezzlement • Employment • Equanimity • Explanation • Family Law • Federal Republic • felony • formality • good faith • Hilde Benjamin • hostility • Household • Ideology • Imprisonment • indictment • Informant • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • Jurist • labour law • Lawsuit • lawyer • lay assessor • Legal Education • Legal History • Legislation • Liberalization • Magistrate court (West Virginia) • Negotiation • neo-nazism • Objection (law) • Ownership • Payment • Personal property • plaintiff • Politician • Politics • Precedent • Probation • Prosecutor • punishment • Requirement • resentment • Restitution • secret police • security agency • Settlement (litigation) • social conflict • socialist state • spouse • Stasi • Statute • Supervisor • Suspect • Tax • Theft • The Other Hand • Tort • trial court • Truancy • West Germany • What Happened
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3659-X / 140083659X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3659-8 / 9781400836598