A Matter of Pure Conscience? Franz Wieacker and his “Conceptual Change” [CRITIQUE]

• Authors: Giaro, Tomasz

Abstracts

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Based on a recent biography of Franz Wieacker (1908–1994) two central questions are examined. Is it allowed to analyze a young, but already prominent German law professor of the Nazi era as a pure scholar whose identity remained unchanged from the times of Weimar to the Federal Republic of Germany? Is it plausible to treat the Nazis as progenitors of current European legal history, and in particular as founding fathers of European legal tradition?

Keywords

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Franz Wieacker; Ernst Rudolf Huber; Nazism; anti-Semitism; totalitarianism; apoliticality; connubium; Aryanising; Kieler Schule; reception of Roman law; Roman foundations of Europe; nazizm; antysemityzm; totalitaryzm; apolityczność; aryzacja; Szkoła Kilońska; recepcja prawa rzymskiego; rzymskie podwaliny Europy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Studia Iuridica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 82
• Pages: 9-28

Dates

published

2020-03-05

Contributors

author

Giaro, Tomasz

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.9513