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Continuities and Discontinuities in German Legal Thought

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How does the history of your country and its legal traditions affect your identity as a citizen, researcher, teacher? In case you happen to be from Germany, how do you live with the memory of national crimes - and the fact that legal academia identified in significant numbers with the Nazi regime? Are there affinities in German legal traditions to anti-liberal ideologies and authoritarian mentalities? How did post-war Germany face its past? The essay does not try to address these questions systematically but through a narrative which seeks to trace the biographical impact of the German history.

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  1. Law Department, European University Institute, Florence, 50122, Italy

    Christian Joerges

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Joerges, C. Continuities and Discontinuities in German Legal Thought. Law and Critique 14, 297–308 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:LACQ.0000005239.00373.52

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