The dual state
Subtitle: a contribution to the theory of dictatorship
By: Ernst Fraenkel, translated from the German by E. A. Shils, in collaboration with Edith Lowenstein and Klaus Knorr ; with an introduction by Jens Meierhenrich ; including the preface and appendices to the 1974 German edition translated by Jens Meierhenrich
Contributors: Shils, Edward, 1910-1995, translator; Lowenstein, Edith, translator; Knorr, Klaus, 1911-1990, translator; Meierhenrich, Jens, author of introduction, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780198716204
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Politics and government; Totalitarianism; National socialism
Description: Written by a German jurist during his time working within the Nazi judicial system of the 1930s, this text addresses the ways in which the Nazi regime changed the legal structures of Germany, providing a detailed analysis that remains relevant to international and public law today.
Notes: Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: the legal system of the dual state. The prerogative state ; The limits of the prerogative state ; The normative state; title: Part II: the legal theory of the dual state. The repudiation of rational natural law by notional-socialism ; The national-socialist campaign against natural law ; National-socialism and communal natural law; title: Part III: the legal reality of the dual state. The legal history of the dual state ; The economic background of the dual state ; The sociology of the dual state.