Bøger af Michael Stolleis

This study examines the period after the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1806, which had repercussions on the social and constitutional structures of Central European society, paving the way for the changes and controversies involved in the formation of a notion of the state and public law in the 19th century.

History of Social Law in Germany

Written by a distinguished scholar of German legal history, this book traces the origins of the German welfare state, and surveys the history of social security in Germany to 1945, including Bismarck's pioneering introduction of social insurance in the 1880s.

Attempts to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew heavily on theology and moral philosophy, and vice versa.