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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Gehrig, Sebastian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I TRENCHES --; Chapter 1 Legal Rubble --; Chapter 2 Old and New Law --; Part II INTERNATIONALIZATION --; Chapter 3 The Clash of Legal Universes --; Chapter 4 Entangled Citizenships --; Part III UNIVERSALISMS --; Chapter 5 International Networking --; Chapter 6 Separated by Law --; Conclusion: License to Legislate --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800730847; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800730847?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sebastian Gehrig.

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.