Laying down the law the American legal revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan
At the close of the Second World War, it became the policy of the United States to cause the permanent demilitarization of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan by their compulsory democratization during a period of military occupation. For American leaders, the indispensable precondition of the democrati...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University Press
2019
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Оглавление:
- Introduction: Laying down the law in Occupied Germany and Japan
- 'The destruction of philosophies': planning the legal reconstruction of Germany and Japan
- Occupying the legal other: the subjugation of the German and Japanese legal systems
- Captive constitutions: remaking constitutional law in Occupied Germany and Japan
- Crafting liberal courts: reconstituting the German and Japanese judiciaries
- Clearing the spiritual rubble: reforming criminal justice in Occupied Germany and Japan
- Twilight of the gods: the rise and fall of civil liberties in Occupied Germany and Japan
- Conclusion: Laying down the law: Americans as legal revolutionaries