O olho da lei vigia! Uma máxima que se tornou ultrapassada. Conforme o tom de voz ou a situação, pode soar irônica, tranquilizadora ou alarmante. Mas o que se esconde por trás da curiosa metáfora antropomórfica de uma "lei" que possui um olho, que nunca dorme, e que "tudo" vê? Em seu ensaio, Michael Stolleis investiga o intrincado caminho de uma imagem cuja história ilustra, de forma impressionante, a mudança de nossa compreensão jurídica, desde os antigos até as ditaduras do Século XX.

In the Law under the Swastika, Michael Stolleis examines the evolution of legal history, theory, and practice in Nazi Germany, paying close attention to its impact on the Federal Republic and on the German legal profession. Until the late 1960s, historians of the Nazi judicial system were mostly judges and administrators from the Nazi era. According to Stolleis, they were reluctant to investigate this legal history and maintained the ideal that law could not be affected by politic...

O olho da lei vigia! Uma máxima que se tornou ultrapassada. Conforme o tom de voz ou a situação, pode soar irônica, tranquilizadora ou alarmante. Mas o que se esconde por trás da curiosa metáfora antropomórfica de uma "lei" que possui um olho, que nunca dorme, e que "tudo" vê? Em seu ensaio, Michael Stolleis investiga o intrincado caminho de uma imagem cuja história ilustra, de forma impressionante, a mudança de nossa compreensão jurídica, desde os antigos até as ditaduras do Século XX.

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity through to the present day: from the Greek Eye of Justice, the eye of the impartial judge of the Underworld, the Eye of God watching past, present and future, the Eye of the Prince, guiding his subj...

Mediante uma bem cuidada tradução, realizada pelo Professor Gustavo César Machado Cabral, o autor discute importantes questões de metodologia da História do Direito, enfrentando múltiplos referenciais e tradições que norteiam as formas de se pensar esse campo de pesquisa. Trata-se de uma reflexão fundamental para a compreensão do lugar e da relevância da metodologia na construção da Ciência do Direito.Em prefácio à obra, o Professor Titular da USP, Gilberto Bercovici, afirma que "a traduçã...

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew heavily on theology and moral philosophy, and vice versa. Historians of science, law, philosophy, and theology from Europe and North America here come together to address these central themes an...

The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazi-System and after World War II in the FRG and the GDR. The system of social welfare in Germany is one of the pillars of economic stability.

This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provides a perceptive overview of the history of social security and social welfare in Germany from early modern times to the end of World War II, including Bismarck’s pioneering introduction of social insurance in the 1880s. The author unravels “layers” of social security that have piled up in the course of history and, so he argues, st...

A collaboration of leading historians of European law and philosophers of law and politics identifying and explaining the practice of interpretation of law in the 18th century. The goal: establishing the actual practice in the Age of Enlightenment, and explaining why this was the case. The ideology of the Age was that law, i.e., the will of the sovereign, can be explicitly and appropriately stated, thus making interpretation redundant. However, the reality was that in the 18th century, the...