An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture offers students, comparative law scholars, and practitioners an insightful and innovative survey of the German legal system. While recognizing the significant influence of the Civil Law tradition in the German legal culture, the book also considers other legal traditions - Common Law, Socialist Law, Islamic Law, Adversarial Law, European Law - that are woven into the varied and colorful fabric of the German legal culture. The book provides an informed yet accessible introduction to the foundations of German law as well as to the theory and doctrine of some of the most relevant fields of law: Private Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Procedural Law, and European Law. It is an engaging and pluralistic portrayal of one of the world's most interesting, important, and frequently modelled legal systems.

A lively, critical, and deeply informed survey of German law and legal culture.

About the Author
Russell A. Miller is the J. B. Stombock Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University. He was the head of the Max Planck Law Network from 2020 to 2022. He is a respected scholar and teacher of comparative law, with an emphasis on German constitutional law. He is a two-time recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and he in 2021 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize for his work on German law. He is the co-author of The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany (3rd edition, 2012). In 2002 he graduated with a LL.M. from the University of Frankfurt. From 2000 to 2002 he was a judicial clerk (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the German Federal Constitutional Court. He is the co-founder and long-serving editor of the German Law Journal.


Book Information
ISBN 9781107141131
Author Russell A. Miller
Format Hardback
Page Count 502
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 860g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 169mm * 26mm