An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture: Text and Materials

An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture offers students, comparative law scholars, and practitioners an insightful and innovative survey of the German legal system. While recognizing the significant influence of the Civil Law tradition in the German legal culture, the book also considers other legal traditions – Common Law, Socialist Law, Islamic Law, Adversarial Law, European Law – that are woven into the varied and colorful fabric of the German legal culture. The book provides an informed yet accessible introduction to the foundations of German law as well as to the theory and doctrine of some of the most relevant fields of law: Private Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Procedural Law, and European Law. It is an engaging and pluralistic portrayal of one of the world's most interesting, important, and frequently modelled legal systems.

• Includes a dedicated chapter on the common approaches to comparative legal studies to help students with an encounter with foreign legal systems
• Provides comparisons to more familiar legal systems when discussing German norms and legal institutions
• Each chapter contains an introductory list of 'key concepts' to allow students to understand new and complex foreign legal concepts