This history of the discipline of public law in Germany covers three dramatic decades of the Twentieth century. It opens with the First World War, analyses the highly creative years of the Weimar Republic, and recounts the decline of German public law that began in 1933 and extended to the downfall of the Third Reich.

Michael Stolleis is Professor at the University of Frankfurt, and Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt.