Weimar Arthur Jacobson, Bernhard Schlink / Arthur Jacobson, Bernhard Schlink
2001
eBook
This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet ...the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Federal Republic, and today its lessons can be of use to states throughout the world. Weimar legal theory is a key to understanding the experience of nations turning from traditional, religious, or command-and-control forms of legitimation to the rule of law. Only two of these authors, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt, have been published to any extent in English, but they and the others whose writings are translated here played key roles in the political and constitutional struggles of the Weimar Republic. Critical introductions to all the theorists and commentaries on their works have been provided by experts from Austria, Canada, Germany, and the United States. In their general introduction, the editors place the Weimar debate in the context of the history and politics of the Weimar Republic and the struggle for constitutionalism in Germany. This critical scrutiny of the Weimar jurisprudence of crisis offers an invaluable overview of the perils and promise of constitutional development in states that lack an entrenched tradition of constitutionalism.
I grew up with the Bible being read and interpreted every evening. After dinner my family remained seated around the table and read one chapter, my parents, my three siblings, and I taking turns ...verse by verse, and then my father, a professor of divinity, interpreted what we had read. Before I learned how to read, an American Bible with illustrations—it must have been a postwar gift by an American reeducation institution—was opened before me so that I had a picture to look at.
Did I learn anything for my life as a lawyer and legal interpreter? When
Schlink argues that the minimum requirements for a liberal constitutional system are respect for the rule of law and an independent judiciary. Although a middle class has emerged in China and ...Vietnam, it is made up to a substantial degree of officials and employees from the state apparatus and state corporations. More a part of the state than its counterpart, it does not have the autonomy to push toward liberal democratic constitutionalism, nor an interest in doing so. Hopes that the triumph of capitalism, with its entrepreneurial and market freedoms, would go hand-in-hand with the victory of liberal democratic constitutionalism have been dashed. Only occasionally do the changes wrought to the economic basis by capitalism help constitutionalism to advance.
Zum ersten Mal habe ich Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde im Wintersemester 1965/1966 erlebt. Ich war von Berlin nach Heidelberg gewechselt, zum sechsten Semester eines lustlos und lieblos betriebenen ...Jurastudiums, das ich nur hinter mich bringen wollte. Ich musste noch die Übung im Öffentlichen Recht für Fortgeschrittene bestehen, die von Böckenförde veranstaltet wurde, und stellte mich auf eine Übung ein, wie ich Übungen bisher erlebt hatte: lebensfremde, belanglose Fälle, vorgetragen von Professoren, die sich für die schulmäßige Vermittlung von Falllösungstechniken eigentlich zu schade waren.
Weimar Jacobson, Arthur; Schlink, Bernhard
12/2000, Letnik:
8
eBook
This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet ...the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Federal Republic, and today its lessons can be of use to states throughout the world. Weimar legal theory is a key to understanding the experience of nations turning from traditional, religious, or command-and-control forms of legitimation to the rule of law. Only two of these authors, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt, have been published to any extent in English, but they and the others whose writings are translated here played key roles in the political and constitutional struggles of the Weimar Republic. Critical introductions to all the theorists and commentaries on their works have been provided by experts from Austria, Canada, Germany, and the United States. In their general introduction, the editors place the Weimar debate in the context of the history and politics of the Weimar Republic and the struggle for constitutionalism in Germany. This critical scrutiny of the Weimar jurisprudence of crisis offers an invaluable overview of the perils and promise of constitutional development in states that lack an entrenched tradition of constitutionalism.
Free or a Servant? Schlink, Bernhard
Law and literature,
04/2017, Letnik:
29, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
In 1858, the German poet-jurist Theodor Storm wrote a small poem that keeps intriguing interpreters: "One man enquires: And then what? / The other, merely: Is it right? / And so, observing, we can ...spot / The free man - and the servant's plight." Who is the free man - the one who merely asks whether something is right or the one who accepts responsibility for the consequences of his actions? Who is the servant - the one who fearfully allows his actions to be determined by their advantages and disadvantages or the one who does what his master says is right? The article asks what Theodor Storm meant, and what is actually correct.
Traditionell umfassen die Angelegenheiten der Religionsgesellschaften das, was die Mitglieder der Religionsgesellschaften als Mitglieder, mit Mitgliedern und für Mitglieder betreiben. Demgegenüber ...vereinnahmt ein usurpatorischer Begriff der Angelegenheiten alles, was die Religionsgesellschaften durch, mit und für irgendjemanden tun. Auch die Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts hat diesen Begriff aufgegriffen. Sie hat ihm aber nie rechtliche Geltung verschafft. Es ist Zeit, zum traditionellen Verständnis zurückzukehren.
