Justice in Lüritz

Justice in Lüritz
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 257
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781400836598
ISBN-13 : 140083659X
Rating : 4/5 (59X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Justice in Lüritz by : Inga Markovits

Download or read book Justice in Lüritz written by Inga Markovits and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court, she knew that she had finally found her mailbox. Combining her work in this extraordinary archive with interviews of former plaintiffs and defendants, judges and prosecutors, government and party functionaries, and Stasi collaborators, all in the little town she calls "Lüritz," Markovits has written a remarkable grassroots history of a legal system that set out with the utopian hopes of a few and ended in the anger and disappointment of the many. This is a story of ordinary men and women who experienced Socialist law firsthand--people who applied and used the law, trusted and resented it, manipulated and broke it, and feared and opposed it, but who all dealt with it in ways that help us understand what it meant to be a citizen in a twentieth-century Socialist state, what "Socialist justice" aimed to do, and how, in the end, it failed. Brimming with human stories of obedience and resistance, endurance and cunning, and cruelty and grief, Justice in Lüritz is ultimately a book about much more than the law, or Socialism, or East Germany.


Justice in Lüritz Related Books

Justice in Lüritz
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Inga Markovits
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-30 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is
Extraordinary Justice
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Craig Etcheson
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-19 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In just a few short years, the Khmer Rouge presided over one of the twentieth century’s cruelest reigns of terror. Since its 1979 overthrow, there have been s
The Human Rights Dictatorship
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Ned Richardson-Little
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European disside
How to Measure the Quality of Judicial Reasoning
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Mátyás Bencze
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-30 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This edited volume examines the very essence of the function of judges, building upon developments in the quality of justice research throughout Europe. Disting
Gender Equality in Law
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Barbara Havelková
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Since the fall of the Berlin wall there has been a surprising dearth of high quality of scholarship on legal culture in the communist successor states of East