Empire of Law

Nazi Germany, Exile Scholars and the Battle for the Future of Europe

AvKaius Tuori

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

European legal integration is often justified with reference to the inherent unity of European legal traditions that extend to ancient Rome. This book explores the invention of this tradition, tracing it to a group of legal scholars divided by the onslaught of Nazi terror and totalitarianism in Europe. As exiles in Britain and the US, its formulators worked to build bridges between the Continental and the Atlantic legal traditions, incorporating ideas such as rule of law, liberty and equality to the European heritage. Others joined the Nazi revolution, which promoted its own idea of European unity. At the end of World War Two, natural law and human rights were incorporated into the European project. The resulting narrative of Europe, one that outlined human rights, rule of law and equality, became consequently a unifying factor during the Cold War as the self-definition against the challenge of communism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-04-02
Mått:156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108483636

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Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Kaius Tuori is Professor of European Intellectual History at the Centre for European Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. He is a legal historian and author of two monographs and numerous articles spanning the topics of tradition, culture, identity, memory and the uses of the past.

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'Kaius Tuori convincingly demonstrates how a narrative from Roman law to European identity was constructed in the twentieth century, and the ideological purposes the fiction was made to serve, including across the divide between National Socialist Europe and a self-styled continent of human rights. There is much to learn from Tuori's erudition and insight.' Samuel Moyn, Yale University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Legal refugees from Nazi Germany and the idea of liberty; 3. Redefining the rule of law, jurisprudence and the totalitarian state; 4. The long legal tradition and the European heritage in Nazi Germany; 5. Reconfiguring European legal tradition after the war; 6. The European narrative and the tradition of rights; 7. Conclusions.