Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: The Emancipation from Roman Law and the Change in the Sources of Constitutional Law
3: Elements of the Emerging Public Law
4: Reichspublizistik, Natural Law, International Law, and Gute Policy
5: Public Law Between Revolution and Restoration
6: St. Paul's Church [Paulskirche]
7: Imperial State Law
8: Administrative Law in the Early Industrial State
9: The Theory of State Law and Administrative Law under the Weimar Constitution
10: Controversies over Method and General Theories of the State
11: Administrative Law in the Weimar Republic
12: The National Socialist State and Its Public Law
13: Germany's Legal Status, Reconstruction, Two States
14: The New 'Value System' [Wertordnung] and the Restoration of the Rechtsstaat
15: The Social and Interventionist State of the Federal Republic
16: The State Law, International Law, and Administrative Law of the GDR
17: European Law and International Law
18: Reunification
19: Globalization and the Future of the State
20: Conclusion

About the Author

Michael Stolleis is a German jurist and legal historian. He is professor emeritus of public law and legal history at the Goethe University Frankfurt. From 1991 to 2009 he was the Director of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.

Reviews

this little book is a true vade mecum ... for anyone seeking a primer on the development of German public law scholarship, this little book admirably fits the bill.
*Martin Loughlin, Modern Law Review*

The book succeeds admirably ... in presenting to a broader readership the arc of German public law thinking since its early-modern origins.
*Justin Collings, International Journal of Constitutional Law*