Lawyers, Liberalism, and Procedure: The German Imperial Justice Laws of 1877–79

Although Franz Schnabel described the nineteenth century as the “century of the formal Rechtsstaat,” most political and social historians of the German Kaiserreich have paid surprisingly little attention to the legal aspect of the development of society and polity. Textbooks in German history contai...

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Legal proceedings
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Rule of law
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