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

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

Author: Russell A. Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316506370
Published In: October 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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

1. Introduction: encounters with foreign legal cultures

2. The civil law tradition

3. Germany's plural legal culture

4. Foundations I: legal history

5. Foundations II: political and legal institutions

6. Foundations III: legal education, legal method, legal actors

7. German private law – the civil code

8. German public law – constitutionalism

9. German public law – administrative law

10. German criminal law

11. German procedural law

12. The Europeanization of German law