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Die Wiener Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 1918-1938
English summary: The time between the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1938 was a period of prosperity for the Viennese Faculty for Law and State. In particular the Vienna School of Legal Theory, founded by Hans Kelsen, and the Austrian School of Economics with its head Ludwig Mises enjoyed high international prestige. The book examines the history of the faculty in the period 1918-1938, not only as a history of legal sciences, but also in socio-historical terms. Because the fate of individual careers as well as of whole scientific schools were connected intimately with the political developments of the time and the personalities that shaped the life...
Das Dienst-, Habilitations- und Disziplinarrecht der Universität Wien 1848–1938
Basierend auf einem umfangreichen Quellenstudium zeigt der Band, wie die Rechtsstellung des wissenschaftlichen Personals an der Universität Wien von 1848 bis 1938 theoretisch und praktisch ausgestaltet war. Dabei werden sowohl Besoldungsfragen und Kollegiengelder als auch der Hochschulantisemitismus, die universitären Netzwerke und die Zulassung von Frauen zur Habilitation behandelt. Insbesondere das bislang vernachlässigte Gebiet des Disziplinarrechts wird ausgiebig dargestellt. Die Autorin ermittelt anhand der Einzelfälle, welches Verhalten generell als disziplinarwidrig erachtet wurde und ob sich diese Auffassungen im Wandel der Zeit veränderten. Abgerundet wird der Band durch die Da...
The Life and Death of States
An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order Sprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The 1848 revolutions sparked decades of heady constitutional experimentation that pushed the very concept of “the state” to its limits. This intricate multinational polity became a hothouse for public law and legal philosophy and spawned ideas that still shape our understanding of the sovereign state today. The Life and Death of States traces the history of sovereignty over one hundred tumultuous years, explaining how a regime of nation-states...
At Eden’s Door
Leon Kellner was part of the intellectual and cultural elite of imperial Austria. Engaged in politics, a member of his regional parliament, and an essayist of repute, he was also a Zionist leader and confidant of Theodor Herzl. He created an institution for Jews’ cultural, educational, and social advancement modelled on London’s Toynbee Hall, which spread across east-central Europe to great effect. He was also an internationally recognized Shakespeare scholar. Yet for all this, today he is little known. How did someone born into a lower-middle-class Orthodox Jewish family from the province of Galicia come to gain such prominence in the Habsburg empire? Kellner’s is a thoroughly Habsburg Jewish story, spanning east and west and shaped by the empire’s history, politics, and culture. He was a singular character: a Galician Jew at home in Vienna and in Czernowitz, eyes towards Zion, yet content also in London, and never more so than when absorbed in the minutiae of Shakespeare’s texts. Kellner’s world was destroyed twice over: Habsburg Austria came to an end in 1918, east-central European Jewry in 1945. This biography recovers at least part of what was lost.
Reception of the 'Limited liability company (GmbH)'
The limited liability company (GmbH) was created by the German legislature in 1892 as a company form without any historical forerunners or suggestions from comparative law. It brought about a readjustment of the relationship between the chance of profit and the liability risk. However, criticism from the jurisprudence that had not been included in the quick legislative process was also heard from the start. As early as 1892, Levin Goldschmidt expressed concern that the GmbH would replace 'principally more solid forms of company'. However, this criticism did not prevent the company form of the GmbH from being adopted in numerous European countries, or at least seriously considering its reception.
Death by a Thousand Cuts
According to Plato, democracies die when people get angry. Resentment causes them to vote for demagogues. Recently, democratically elected politicians have used crises as a pretext for dismantling democracy, following a pattern we have seen since the dawn of civilization. Why do people fall for the lure of dictatorships? And what can we learn from the cause and effects of dictatorships to understand why democracies die? In this new edition of Matt Qvortrup’s acclaimed monograph Death By A Thousand Cuts, the author shows how neuroscience can help us understand why people willingly give up their democratic rights or are unwillingly forced to do so. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Neuropolitics, Thymos, and the Slow Demise of Democracy is written in an accessible style with vignettes and new empirical data to provide historical context and neurological evidence on a much-discussed topic: the threat of democracy. This book will help readers who are concerned about the longevity of democracy understand when and why democracy is in danger of collapsing and alert them to the warning signs of its demise.
A History of Humanitarian Intervention
An examination of the historical narratives surrounding humanitarian intervention, presenting an undogmatic, alternative history of human rights protection.
