Communities and the(i)r LawHrsg. von Werner Gephart und Daniel Witte
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Vogt, Dennis: Arbeit am KonfliktDie Lösung individueller Arbeitsstreitigkeiten im Deutschen Kaiserreich, 1890–1918
Conflicts characterize the system of dependent labor under capitalism and regularly become visible in the form of tangible issues subject to dispute. Courts and other institutions of labor conflict resolution attempt to mediate and control them, performing work on the conflict in a process of negotiation between workers, employers and the institution´s mediating agents. This study takes a close look at both institutional and extra-institutional labor conflict resolution in the German Empire between 1890 and 1918. On the basis of court records and other sources, for example from industrial tribunals and legal information offices in Worms and Bad Aibling, it shows how conflict resolution in these institutions and their actors functioned and what significance was attached to labor disputes and their handling in the empire.
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Ruppert, Stefan: Recht hält jungZur Entstehung der Jugend aus rechtshistorischer Sicht: Deutschland im langen 19. Jahrhundert (1800–1919)
Law keeps you young. Law makes you old. These striking phrases contain an assumption: namely that age is the result of a social definition to which law contributes significantly. Age limits and age-specific rules determine when we, as adults, are endowed with all civil rights. They specify when we must go to school and when we need to retire. The legally determined age assigns us a social role at all times. It spells out duties, freedoms, protective regulations, and behavioral expectations, as they become tangible in school law, military law, juvenile criminal law, and electoral law, but also in laws against children and youth work. The legal emergence of youth as a moratorium on maturity will be recounted in this book, primarily using the example of Prussia during the long 19th century.
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Rossi, Guido: Ordinatio ad CasumLegal Causation in Italy (14th–17th centuries)
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Lübbe-Wolff, Gertrude: DemophobieMuss man die direkte Demokratie fürchten?
Die politische Redaktion der SZ setzte das Buch auf die Liste der wichtigsten Bücher des Jahres 2023.
"Ein besonders lesenswertes, wichtiges Buch! [...] Wenn diese Schrift weit verbreitet und genau gelesen würde, gäbe es Hoffnung, dass die öffentliche Diskussion über direkte Demokratie künftig sachlicher, ruhiger und rationaler geführt würde." "Lübbe-Wolffs Buch gehört in die Dienstmappe – oder noch besser: auf die obligatorische Leseliste – von deutschen und anderen Volksvertretern." "Das völlig transparent und argumentativ dicht geschriebene Buch [ist] eine hervorragende Einführung in die Demokratie (...). Gut gegen vulgäre Elitenverachtung." "Wie von einer hochkompetenten Rechtsprofessorin zu erwarten, ist der Autorin jede Art von voreiligen Urteilen fremd." "Lübbe-Wolff [analysiert] die Wechselwirkungen zwischen plebiszitären und repräsentativen Elementen der Demokratien. Das ist sehr erhellend. Und ihre Lust an der Argumentation macht die Lektüre überaus anregend." "Nicht übertrieben wäre es, bei diesem Buch von einer Sensation zu sprechen. [...] Eine Streitschrift, sorgfältig recherchiert, dabei im Gestus zugleich kämpferisch und von einer unerschütterlichen aufklärerischen Zuversicht in die Klugheit der Leute unterlegt. [...] Ein demokratietheoretisches Lehrstück." "Das Buch von Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff ist eine Fundgrube von plausiblen und nachvollziehbaren Argumenten."
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Arbeit und Familie in Nordwesteuropa im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit /Travail et famille en Europe du Nord-Ouest au bas Moyen Âge et à l'époque moderne
Le thème du travail et de la famille dans les sociétés du bas Moyen Âge et de l’époque moderne en Europe du Nord-Ouest a réuni des chercheurs et des chercheuses originaires de France, d’Allemagne et de Suisse lors d’un colloque à Francfort-sur-le-Main. Les contributions du recueil qui en est issu explorent avant tout l’agentivité des femmes, leur rapport au travail dans le cadre de structures familiales, ainsi que les dynamiques de reproduction sociale, qu’elles soient souhaitées ou subies. Historiens et historiennes, historiens et historiennes du droit ont sollicité dans une perspective interdisciplinaire des archives judiciaires, des règlements de métiers, des correspondances privées maritales, des sources législatives, des coutumiers, des écrits doctrinaux, des actes d’état civil et des registres communaux afin d’offrir un nouveau regard sur l’histoire (du droit) du travail en famille, dans un réseau de parenté, ou dans des cadres comparables.
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Isensee, Josef: HermeneutikStudien über den Umgang der Jurisprudenz mit Normtexten im Vergleich zur biblischen Theologie und zur Literaturwissenschaft
Hermeneutics is the art of understanding foreign meaning and communicating it to others in words. The present studies take their point of departure from juridical hermeneutics and compare them with biblical theology and literary studies. They all depend on understanding given texts and interpreting them. But only laws and biblical messages, authoritative texts that is, can be applied and have a planned effect on the life world. Possibilities of this kind are foreign to the "beautiful" texts of poetry. They follow their own aesthetic legality. The identical text can keep open different possibilities of interpretation. These, however, are not unlimited. Hermeneutics is oriented towards truth. But this is the truth about the given text, which is independent of whether the text itself is true or not.
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Spranz, Katja: Tatort OstDarstellung von Recht und Unrecht in Fernsehkrimiserien der DDR
"Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort" and "Polizeiruf 110", the popular crime series of the GDR, are meticulously evaluated: The author introduces us into the depictions of everyday life in the GDR they created and leads us through the dominant chains of motifs of the grand narrative of the superior socialist society, in which, for example, "the "intellectual" and the "misunderstood artist" become potentially dangerous figures. It is the incidentals and omissions that tell us more than the manifest criminal history, as long as we employ the analytical category of law in critically reading the self-descriptions of a society. This is where the real narrator exposes himself: an almost mythical figure, namely a GDR society that relentlessly reveals its own weaknesses to itself.
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Hellmann, Jenny: Trauma, Kollektivgefühle und das RechtTransitional Justice in Argentinien
Emotions permeate social life in all its areas. This also applies to law, especially in the context of human rights and the reappraisal of state injustice. The author examines the emotive permeation of law in the context of transitional justice using the recent criminal justice process of dealing with the dictatorship's past in Argentina. The focus is on collective emotional dynamics that have unfolded in the social and legal reappraisal in the field of tension between effervescent collective feelings, the rational logics of law, and its nonetheless "sacred" aura. The starting point for the empirical examination is the documentary film "Algo mío - Argentina's Stolen Children," which has won several awards and is included with the book. It expresses the ambivalences of an emotive theory of the transitory criminal process in impressive images and captivating stories.
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Rechtsgeschichte (Rg) / Legal History 30Zeitschrift des Max-Planck-Instituts für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie Frankfurt am Main
The essays in the research section of Rg 30 present a fundamental research project on the history of conflict regulation from antiquity to the present (Peter Collin et al.), treat drunkenness as a crime in medieval England (Elizabeth Papp Kamali), and discuss semantics in early modern legal and linguistic theory (Jan Schröder). Subsequent foci sections examine transnational criminal law in transatlantic perspective (1870-1945) and current issues in labor law history (20th century) from a variety of perspectives. The criticism section presents multilingual reviews of new publications in legal history from all over the world. The volume is concluded by two marginalia: on representations of justice in the early 16th century and on the state of emergency in Gotham City, featuring a photo series of black-and-white impressions of New York City.
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