An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture offers students, comparative law scholars, and practitioners an insightful and innovative survey of the German legal system. While recognizing the significant influence of the Civil Law tradition in the German legal culture, the book also considers other legal traditions – Common Law, Socialist Law, Islamic Law, Adversarial Law, European Law – that are woven into the varied and colorful fabric of the German legal culture.
The book provides an informed yet accessible introduction to the foundations of German law as well as to the theory and doctrine of some of the most relevant fields of law:
Private Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Procedural Law, and European Law. It is an engaging and pluralistic portrayal of one of the world's most interesting, important, and frequently modelled legal systems.
By:
Russell A. Miller (Washington and Lee University Virginia)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 169mm,
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 850g
ISBN: 9781316506370
ISBN 10: 1316506371
Series: Law in Context
Pages: 502
Publication Date: 17 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
1. Introduction: encounters with foreign legal cultures; 2. The civil law tradition; 3. Germany's plural legal culture; 4. Foundations I: legal history; 5. Foundations II: political and legal institutions; 6. Foundations III: legal education, legal method, legal actors; 7. German private law – the civil code; 8. German public law – constitutionalism; 9. German public law – administrative law; 10. German criminal law; 11. German procedural law; 12. The Europeanization of German law; 13. Epilogue: Germany's German law.
Russell A. Miller is the J. B. Stombock Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University. He was the head of the Max Planck Law Network from 2020 to 2022. He is a respected scholar and teacher of comparative law, with an emphasis on German constitutional law. He is a two-time recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and he in 2021 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize for his work on German law. He is the co-author of The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany (3rd edition, 2012). In 2002 he graduated with a LL.M. from the University of Frankfurt. From 2000 to 2002 he was a judicial clerk (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the German Federal Constitutional Court. He is the co-founder and long-serving editor of the German Law Journal.
