Martin Löhnig – författare

Der Alliierte Kontrollrat hat zahlreiche deutsche Gesetze aus der NS-Zeit zwischen 1933 und 1945 wegen nationalsozialistischer Inhalte aufgehoben. Die Mehrzahl dieser Gesetze blieb jedoch in Kraft. Die deutschen Gerichte standen nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs vor der Aufgabe, diese Normen unter grundlegend veränderten Bedingungen anzuwenden. Wie sie mit dieser Herausforderung umgingen, zeigt Martin Löhnig am Beispiel des Familien- und Arbeitsrechts. Der Jurist und Rechtshistoriker wirft damit ein neues Schlaglicht auf ein wichtiges, aber oft vergessenes Kapitel deutscher Rechtsgeschichte am Übergang von der Diktatur zur Demokratie.

In late Ottoman South-Eastern Europe, traditional Ottoman law, court systems and court personnel on the one hand, and ultra-modern French and German/Austrian law on the other, clashed. Thus, more than ever before, this region lay on the "tectonic boundary" of several legal continental shelves. This location makes South Eastern Europe a laboratory in which elements from different legal cultures coexist, mutually influence each other and merge with each other: A legal space characterised by plurality and hybridity, which due to these characteristics ultimately appears more modern than the - at least supposedly - homogeneous legal areas on the individual legal continental shelves.

Poland has been in a phase of change since 2015. The constitutional system of the Third Republic is being restructured. The Judiciary, media, schools and universities are the main focus of attention. This restructure is being celebrated by the government as a renewal of the Polish state, but is being branded by the opposition as the destruction of the Polish Republic in favour of an illiberal democracy. In this already very difficult situation, Poland was confronted with the major challenges posed by a pandemic. What effects will the crisis have on the restructuring of the constitutional system? At present, it seems that the pandemic is acting as a catalyst for those changes. This book aims to provide an informed commentary on those developments and what they mean for the Third Polish Republic.