Laying Down the Law : : The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan / / R. W. Kostal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2019
• VerfasserIn: Kostal, R. W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

After WWII, U.S. leaders sought to create liberal rule-of-law regimes in Germany and Japan, but the effort was often unsuccessful. Kostal argues that the manifest failings of America’s own rule-of-law democracy were partially to blame, weakening U.S. credibility and resolve and revealing the country...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The “Destruction of Philosophies”
• 2. Occupying the Legal Other
• 3. Captive Constitutions
• 4. Crafting Liberal Courts
• 5. Clearing the Spiritual Rubble
• 6. Twilight of the Gods
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index