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Political justice : the use of legal procedure for political ends /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirchheimer, Otto (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1961.
Series:Princeton paperbacks ; 120.
Subjects:
Law > Political aspects.
Droit > Aspect politique.
Droit et politique.
Procès politiques.
Law > Political aspects
Political questions and judicial power
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • pt. I. Political justice : cases, causes, methods
  • Changes in the structure of state protection
  • The political trial
  • Legal repression of political organizations
  • pt. II. The judge, the defendant, and the state
  • Conditions of judicial action
  • The defendant, his lawyer, and the court
  • "Democratic centralism" and political integration of the judiciary
  • Trial by fiat of the successor regime
  • pt. III. Political justice modified : asylum and clemency
  • Asylum
  • The quality of mercy
  • Summing up
  • Appendix A. The Roman Empire and the Christians
  • Appendix B. Guillaume du Vair : the case of the successful loyalty shift.