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The East German Social Courts - Law and Popular Justice in a Marxist-Leninist Society (Hardcover)
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The East German Social Courts - Law and Popular Justice in a Marxist-Leninist Society (Hardcover)
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An interesting read for professional jurists, court administrators,
and scholars concerned with lay adjudication or East German legal
institutions, this book provides an account of the social courts of
the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Although the East German
system was corrupt and oppressive, the social courts were an
innovative and successful experiment. Rooted in Marxist-Leninst
legal doctrine, these courts handled thousands of minor civil
disputes and petty criminal offenses each year. The judges and
jurists who worked at these courts were lay people and did not
receive any pay for their services. This book delves into the
history of the social courts and their success with both the
government and the citizens of East Germany. It also presents the
courts as an instructive example of an inexpensive, speedy, and
popular legal institution that should be studied by today's court
systems. The social courts of the GDR had a wide range of primary
and auxiliary functions. Some of these functions were to relieve
the state courts of the need to deal with a variety or minor civil
and criminal cases, give ordinary citizens an important role to
play in the administration of justice, raise the citizens' legal
knowledge and consciousness, and tie citizens more closely to the
regime through participatory acts. Offering both commendations and
criticisms of the social courts, this book seeks to provide a
record of the structures, functions, interactions, decisions, and
personnel of the social courts, along with a comparative analysis
to other legal systems, such as those of the United States of
America.
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