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Lebensbeschreibungen von Juristen, vor allem von Strafjuristen, hatten lange Zeit Seltenheitswert. Inzwischen ist die Zurückhaltung gegenüber Juristenbiographien aber einer intensiven biographischen Aktivität gewichen. Immerhin haben „die Juristen" in der Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts vielfach an gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen mittelbar oder unmittelbar mitgewirkt, sie getragen oder umgesetzt. Die Verknüpfung biographischer Forschung mit Werkanalysen vor dem Hintergrund zeitgeschichtlicher Entwicklung ist das Anliegen dieser Abteilung.
Even von Liszt saw criminal law as a continuous whole. In this sense, important scholars of criminal law shine light on the general development of their discipline since the second half of the twentieth century. They do not just describe their own work in legal scholarship and/or practice, but also discuss general issues pertaining to criminal law.
The book traces the biography of the renowned judge and legal expert who was famous for his numerous, while sometimes controversial, proposals for judicial reform. The author draws on archival sources along with Wassermann’s unpublished memoirs. At the end of the book, there is a separate chapter that engages in detail with Wassermann’s specific reform proposals.
Otto Kahn-Freund was one of the most influential labor attorneys of the 20th century. Kahn-Freund became Presiding Judge at the Berlin Labor Court until he was compelled to emigrate by the National Socialists. In Oxford, he was Professor of Comparative Law at the London School of Economics and a member of the International Law Society. This study focuses on his influence on labor law up to 1933, which still has an impact today.
The planned anthology will compile the autobiographies of colleagues abroad who have served in an exemplary way to promote collaboration with the science of German criminal law.
This work attempts a detailed explanation of Temme's influence on the criminal procedural field while taking into account the political relationships of the time.
This work reflects on the life and work of jurist Friedrich Karl von Strombeck, who was predominantly active as a jurist in the region of Braunschweig in the 18th century. Special consideration is given to the penal law code drafted by Strombeck in 1829, which is the subject of extensive analysis in this work.
This collected volume contains the life stories of 21 significant jurists that considerably affected the development of criminal law over the past few decades and contributed to the influence of German criminal jurisprudence worldwide. The autobiographies comprehensively present criminal jurisprudence and the history of criminal law over the past 50 years. German criminal jurisprudence is held in high esteem internationally and the authors featured in this volume deserve their due credit. Therefore, international connections and also the internationalization of criminal law work are selected as subjects of discussion. This volume contains autobiographical entries on Gunther Arzt, Manfred Burgstaller, Albin Eser, Hans Joachim Hirsch, Hans-Heinrich Jescheck, Günther Kaiser, Diethelm Kienapfel, Karl Lackner, Ernst-Joachim Lampe, Klaus Lüderssen, Werner Maihofer, Wolfgang Naucke, Claus Roxin, Hans-Ludwig Schreiber, Friedrich-Christian Schroeder, Günter Spendel, Günter Stratenwerth, Klaus Tiedemann, Herbert Tröndle and Ulrich Weber. There is also a biography on Theodor Lenckner.