Overview
First book on the English-speaking market world-wide that deals in depth with the modern history of German criminal law
Written by one of the foremost German legal historians and edited by a leading scholar of comparative criminal law in the UK, especially with regard to German law
Together with the editor's books on German criminal law and procedure it provides a comprehensive introduction to German criminal justice for an Anglophone audience
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Increasingly, international governmental networks and organisations make it necessary to master the legal principles of other jurisdictions. Since the advent of international criminal tribunals this need has fully reached criminal law. A large part of their work is based on comparative research. The legal systems which contribute most to this systemic discussion are common law and civil law, sometimes called continental law. So far this dialogue appears to have been dominated by the former. While there are many reasons for this, one stands out very clearly: Language. English has become the lingua franca of international legal research. The present book addresses this issue. Thomas Vormbaum is one of the foremost German legal historians and the book's original has become a cornerstone of research into the history of German criminal law beyond doctrinal expositions; it allows a look at the system’s genesis, its ideological, political and cultural roots. In the field of comparative research, it is of the utmost importance to have an understanding of the law’s provenance, in other words its historical DNA.
Authors, Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Modern History of German Criminal Law
Authors: Thomas Vormbaum
Editors: Michael Bohlander
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37273-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-37272-8Published: 14 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51326-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-37273-5Published: 01 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 304
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general