The rational and less rational life of international law Dear readers, Russia`s armed attack on Ukraine has caused much despair of international law. What is the value of a legal. In the broader externalization of German law, constitutional law falls under “public law” – as opposed to “private law” or “civil law” – because it concerns the legal relationship between individuals and the state. Journal articles can be an excellent option for research on German law, especially current developments. There are many English-language journals that publish articles on German law. One of the easiest ways to find relevant journal articles is to use an online index. Click on the PDF icon below to see a list of recommended indexes for searching German legal topics. In German-speaking legal systems, legal commentaries are an important legal research resource. This is a hybrid primary/secondary source: 1.
First, learn about the German legal system, including the full and abbreviated names of legal entities and institutions, and the process by which laws are promulgated and published. Since the Basic Law defines the organisational structure of the Federation in Germany, constitutional law also falls under the category of “constitutional law” in German case law. The freely accessible gesetze-im-internet.de website contains all currently applicable laws, codes and regulations. It is managed jointly by the Federal Ministry of Justice and the publishers of the Juris legal database. The user interface of this website is in German, but English translations of some laws are available. German commercial law is an independent area of private law in the German legal system. Beck-Online also has a source called Leitsatzkartei, which is an index of legal opinions and secondary legal sources. Search for a topic by name in this source to see a list of related documents. As in many areas of the German legal language, the names of the individual courts are often known by abbreviations, as follows: This volume is part of a series of 50 volumes “Great Christian Jurists in World History”, which presents the interaction of law and Christianity based on the biographies of 1000 legal personalities of the last two millennia.
Each volume in this series, commissioned by Emory University`s Center for the Study of Law and Religion, focuses on a specific country, region, or time and examines the lives and work of twenty or more of its greatest legal minds over the centuries. These legal minds include not only civil and canonical lawyers and judges, but also theologians, philosophers, and church leaders who contributed decisively to legal ideas and institutions or helped create statutes, canons, or founding affairs. Thus, well-known Christian jurists such as Gratian, Grotius, Blackstone, Kuttner and Scalia appear in this series, but also Augustine, Isidore, Thomas Aquinas, Calvin, Maritain and Romero. This biographical approach does not aim to devalue institutional, doctrinal, social or intellectual legal histories, nor to transform itself into a new form of hagiography or cult of the hero of dead white men. Instead, it was designed to offer a common simple and heuristic method for studying the interaction of law and Christianity around the world over the past two millennia. Columbia University Press opened this series in 2006 with a three-volume book on modern Christian teachings on law, politics, and human nature featuring thirty Christian figures from Catholic, Protestant, and Modern Orthodox. Cambridge University Press has new titles on the great Christian jurists of the first millennium as well as in English, Spanish, French, Lowlands and American history. Routledge takes up Italian, Nordic, Russian, Welsh and Latin American stories; Mohr Siebeck die deutsche Geschichte; Federation Press Australian History. The next titles will cover the great Christian jurists of the history of Scotland, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and various countries and regions of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In contrast, most German scholars and students today lack a deep understanding or appreciation of this history of law and Christianity.
Since Erik Wolf`s classic “Große Rechtsdenker der deutschen Geistegeschichte” (4th edition 1963), there has been no in-depth examination of the influence of Christian theology on German legal thinkers over the centuries. While some scholars have recently studied Protestant influences on law and politics, inspired in part by the five hundredth anniversary of Luther`s Reformation in 2017, the scientific study of the millennial canonical legal tradition of German history or the influence of Christianity on individual areas of public, private, criminal and procedural law is almost irrelevant to all, except for specialists. become. Ironically, Germany, once a world leader in the academic study of law and Christianity, has now largely lost its ability to explore its own Christian traditions and legal influence. And the few bold attempts to do so recently have garnered little public interest, sympathy, or funding, and have at times met with considerable resistance. This category concerns subgroups of legal practitioners in Germany. Jurists typically include practicing lawyers, judges, law professors, and academics. Please place people in the correct subcategory. It proved difficult to summarize this vast topic in a single volume and sort the basic parameters of this study. The “Christian” jurists who appear here are mostly Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists who dominate German legal history.
The “jurists” we have selected include not only law professors, lawyers or judges, but also philosophers and theologians who have shaped the law and legal theory of church and state. Their “greatness” in German legal history does not always mean that they were popular in their time – especially those who criticized or opposed important events such as the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the rise of Prussian absolutism, and the break-up of Nazism and Nazism. And “German” lawyers are not necessarily those who wrote in German or considered themselves German.