Darker Legacies of Law in Europe : The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and Its Legal Traditions.

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Prologue: Reluctance to Glance in the Mirror: The Changing Face of German Jurisprudence After 1933 and Post-1945 -- Part I: Continuity and Rupture -- 1. The Problem of Perceptions of National Socialist Law or: Was there a Constitutional Theory of National Socialism? -- Introduction -- The development of law in National Socialism: destruction and reconstruction -- 1 De-legalisation -- 2 Dynamics and Movement -- 3 Assessment -- Contemporary perceptions of the National Socialist theory of State and constitution -- 1 Perceptions of the decline of the Weimar constitution -- 2 Perception of the new construction of a National Socialist law -- Conclusions -- 1 Indefiniteness of content and methodical inevitability -- 2 Loss of content or loss of method? -- 3 Was there a constitutional theory of National Socialism? -- 2. Looking into the Brightly Lit Room: Braving Carl Schmitt in 'Europe' -- Raising Doubts, Doubts Resolved -- General Schmittian Contributions -- Injudicious Justices-A Specifically European Matter -- To Close / Too Close? -- Part II: The Era of National Socialism and Fascism -- 3. The Facist Theory of Contract -- Keywords and Formalisms of the Debate on Juridical Fascism -- A Possible Way Out: The Comparison with Juridical National Socialism -- Comparisons Between Fascist and National-Socialist Private Law: In Particular the Debate on the Value of Roman Law -- National Socialism and the Law of Contracts: From the Bilateral Juridical Transaction to the Agreement for Exchange of Goods and Services -- Fascism and the Law of Contracts Between Tradition and Innovation -- Protection of the Weaker Contracting Party in Juridical Fascism and National Socialism -- The Law of Contracts in the Fascist and National Socialist Courts.

The Revision of Contracts by Judges -- Some Final Considerations: the Law of Contracts 'Fascist Malgré Soi' -- 4. 'Spheres of Influence' and 'Völkisch' Legal Thought: Reinhard Höhn's Notion of Europe -- Who was Reinhard Höhn (1904-2000)? -- Radical Notions of the Community under Leadership -- Master peoples and slave peoples: Reinhard Höhn's notion of Europe -- 'Völkisch' and universal international law thought in National Socialism -- 5. 'The Outsider Does Not See al The Game...' Perceptions of German Law in Anglo-American Legal Scholarship, 1933-1940 -- Nazi Law, Continuity and The Stakes of The Debate -- Critiques of Nazi Legality: The International Law Exception -- Understanding Nazi Law: Contemporary Anglo-American Accounts -- German Criminal Law and the Nazi Criminal State in Anglo-American Legal Scholarship -- Conclusion -- 6.'A Distorted Image of Ourselves': Nazism, 'Liberal' Societies and the Qualities of Difference -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Part III: Continuity and Reconfiguration -- 7. Carl Schmitt's Europe: Cultural, Imperial and Spatial Proposals for European Integration, 1923-1955 -- Europe as Christendom, 1923 -- Central Europe as Anti-Russia, 1929 -- The German Großraum, 1939 -- Europe as Origin of International Law and Spatial Order, 1950 -- Preliminary Conclusions -- 8. Culture and the Rationality of Law from Weimar to Maastricht -- Introduction -- '"The King of Prussia" is not an Acceptable Partner at Versailles' -- 'The German Empire is a Republic.'7 / 'Citizenship of the Union is Hereby Established.' -- Conceptual Logic of the Constitution According to Carl Schmitt -- Unity and Constitution -- Legal Implications of the Existential Constitution -- Legitimacy of a Constitutional Collectivity -- EU and the Political Constitution of Union -- The Euopean Nomos: Cultural and Legal Geography.

Conclusion: Contentious Europe or the Dialectic of Resistance -- 9. Europe A GROßRAUM? Shifting Legal Conceptualisations of the Integration Project -- Queries -- Rupture: Carl Schmitt's Großraum-theory -- The Theory -- Continuities: elements of internal ordering -- The renewal of the first legal culture in the integration process -- 10. From GROßRAUM to Condominium A Comment -- 11. Formalism and Anti-Formalism in French and German Judicial Methodology -- Conclusion -- 12. Judicial Methodology and Fascist and Nazi Law -- The impact of legal methodology on legal systems -- Positivism, universalism and democracy -- 13. On Nazi 'Honour' and the New European 'Dignity' -- I -- II -- III -- Conclusion -- 14. On Fascist Honour and Human Dignity: A Sceptical Response -- Dignity -- Continuity -- National and Transnational Legal History -- Nazi Labour Law and Paid Vacations -- 'Levelling Up,' Social Honour, and Human Dignity -- 15. Corporatist Doctrine and the 'New European Order' -- I 'European' Labour Law and the 'proud victory of the National Socialist ideal' -- II Italy and Germany: different labour laws for different economic worlds -- III The common reaction to the great crisis of 1929: totalitarianism v. individualisation -- IV The Italian debate on the new European order -- Part IV: Responses to National Socialism and Facism in National Legal Cultures -- 16. The German Impact on Fascist Public Law Doctrine - Costantino Mortati's 'Material Constitution' -- I -- II -- III -- 17. Mortati and the Science of Public Law: A Comment on la Torre -- 1 A reconstruction of Mortati's legal works: issues of method and merit -- 2 From a formal concept of the State to an analysis of interests and groups -- 3 The new form of government -- 4 The theory of discretionary power -- 5 Mortati and legal culture during the Fascist period: a dissenting view.

18. From Republicanism to Fascist Ideology Under The Early Franquismo -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Destination Fascism -- 3 Who were the Fascists? The Radicalisation of Modernisers -- 4 The Genealogy of franquista Legal Theory: the Schmittian Donoso -- 5 Conclusions -- 19. Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Austrian Constitutional Doctrine 1933 to 1938 and its Legacy -- A No-Name Period -- The Notion -- Self-Elimination -- The Emergency Law of 1917 -- Self-Elimination, Part II -- The Patriotic Front -- The Constitution of 1934 -- Political Catholicism: The Virtue of Accommodation -- Accommodation and its Modes: The Emergence of Authoritarian Constitutionalism -- The European Dimension -- The First Response and its Catch -- The Second Response: Papal Positivism -- Austrian Exceptionalism -- The Third Response: Authority and Statehood -- Representation: The August Notion of Authority -- Two Other Notions of Authority, Or: What Makes the August Notion Distinctive -- The Core Problem of Austrian Constitutional Law -- The Authoritarian Test -- Applying the Authoritarian Test -- Conclusion: The Contest of Languages -- Epilogue -- Index.

This book, written by leading scholars, presents theoretical, historical and legal inquiries into the legacy of National Socialism and Fascism.

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