Includes papers presented at second biennial conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History in Amsterdam, July 2012, under the broad banner of 'Fascist Criminal Law'.--Preface. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Conclusion: Through the looking glass : thinking about and working through fascist criminal law / David Fraser. The shadow of the law : the special tribunal for the defence of the state between justice and politics in the Italian fascist period / Luigi Lacchè -- The positivist school of criminology and Italian fascist criminal law : a squandered legacy? / Emilia Musumeci -- Fascist by name, fascist by nature? : the 1930 Italian penal code in academic commentary, 1928-46 / Stephen Skinner -- Criminal law, racial law, fascist law : was the fascist era really a "parenthesis" for the Italian legal system? / Michael A. Livingston -- The enemy within : criminal law and ideology in interwar Romania / Cosmin S. Cercel -- Criminal law under the Francoist regime : the influence of militarism and national-Catholicism / Pascual Marzal -- When law and prerogatives blend : generic fascism in Getulio Vargas's Brazil, 1930-45 / Elizabeth Cancelli -- Facilitating fascism? : the Japanese Peace Preservation Act and the role of the judiciary / Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins -- Conclusion: Repression and legality / Stephen Skinner -- Afterword: Through the looking glass : thinking about and working through fascist criminal law / David Fraser.
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