Justice in Luritz: Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany

Justice in Luritz and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as.
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Justice in Lüritz : Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany by Inga Markovits (2010, Paperback)

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Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. I would leave Monday morning for my little town and come back Saturday evening. For years, I also spent a few additional weeks when I could; at Christmas, for instance, or over the summer. The court decided about a thousand cases a year.

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And I could not make copies, because the court had only one Xerox machine. I began in the early nineties and finished the German version of the book in I discovered a system that began with fervent belief among the early judges that they were serving and building a better society, and that law would not play a particularly important role in it. But as the hopes for a new and better society waned, the reliance on law increased. You ended up with many disappointments, much political cynicism, and a growing hope for law.

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In everyday East German life, there was far less injustice than Americans or West Germans would assume. Overall, the system relaxed. East Germany was an authoritarian system, with a suspicion of individual rights, but not one with contempt for human beings. They believed in social welfare rather than political rights.

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People were entitled to a place that was warm, safe, and dry; enough food; education; and free medical care. But the state had no use for free speech and freedom of assembly. In the late s, people just wanted to get away; they just wanted to travel.


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The building of the Wall had solidified the system, but it also cut off all the fresh air and made people increasingly dissatisfied. Eventually, the system collapsed under its own weight.

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