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Legal Entanglements: Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989

Legal Entanglements: Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989

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General LawGerman History

ISBN10: 1836953917
ISBN13: 9781836953913
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Feb 1 2026
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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