A Legal History of the Federal Republic
Germany from the Occupation to the Present
The Federal Republic of Germany has existed for over seventy years. It was established on the ruins of a Germany devastated by war. Much diminished in size in comparison to the German Empires of the past, it nonetheless developed into the most
stable and successful of German states, even and especially after reunification. The basis of this success was its formation as a liberal democratic constitutional state. Uwe Wesel describes the most important milestones of this success story in his
unique, captivating style.
The books covers a plethora of crucial elements in Germany’s legal development: the regime under occupation, the Nuremberg trials, denazification and reappraisal of the
NS time, currency reform, formation of the federal state and constitutions, federal courts (especially the Federal Constitutional Court), development of public law, civil law and criminal law, social issues, employment law, the economic order, consumer protection, environmental protection, tax legislation, EEC and European Union, the introduction of the Euro, globalisation and migration.