During the division of Germany, law became the object of ideological conflicts and the means by which the two national governments conducted their battle over political legitimacy. Legal Entanglements explores how these dynamics produced competing concepts of statehood and sovereignty, all centered on citizens and their rights. Drawing on wide-ranging archival sources, including recently declassified documents, Sebastian Gehrig traces how politicians, diplomats, judges, lawyers, activists and intellectuals navigated the struggle between legal ideologies under the pressures of the Cold War and decolonization. As he shows, in their response to global debates over international law and human rights, their work kept the legal cultures of both German states entangled until 1989.
- ISBN10 1800730845
- ISBN13 9781800730847
- Publish Date 1 May 2021
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Berghahn Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 342
- Language English
- URL http://berghahnbooks.com/title/GehrigLegal