»An Unfair Verdict: Dismantling Legal Positivism’s Responsibility for Nazism«: This book provides an in-depth historical analysis of what the German legal culture refers to as the »Positivism's Myth«, a term which denotes a misleading perception of its recent history that blames Legal Positivism in general and Hans Kelsen's Pure Legalism in particular as the legal theoretical framework responsible for the decline of democratic institutions during the Weimar Republic period and for the legitimacy of the Nazi dictatorship.weiterlesen