Émilie Delivré, Emmanuel Berger, Martin Löhnig (a cura di)

Popular Justice in Times of Transition (19th and 20th Century Europe)

Pubb. online: 2017
Isbn ed.dig.: 978-88-15-33547-0
DOI: 10.978.8815/335470

Indice

Introduction
1. Popular justices
2. Popular justice in transition: the chapters
3. Conflict resolution and popularity
French Grand Juries in Times of Transition, 1791-1799
Popular Justice in Times of Revolution
1. Introduction
2. The «Glorious Revolution» and the reestablishment of popular justice in Spain
3. The jury and criminal procedure
Appendix
«Justice Serving the Poor». The Colleges of Wise Men in Italy (19th-20th Centuries)
1. The emergence of industrial arbitrators to settle labor disputes in Europe
2. The Italian experience. The law of June 15, 1893, no. 295 establishing colleges of wise men
3. Another important issue: the relationship between colleges of probiviri and collective bargaining
Interpretive Moments: Popular Justice Practice in England and Wales, c. 1800-1980
Popular Justice during the People’s Spring. Jury, Charivari, and Other Curiosities in 1848
1. Introduction
2. Charivari
3. Popular Justice, a question of time
4. Conclusions
Bavarian Drumhead Courts-Martial and People’s Courts
1. Introduction
2. Bavaria: Reservoir of anti-democratic forces or starting point to a democratic state
3. Establishment and activities of Bavarian People’s Courts
4. The extent of lay participation
5. The importance of the lay element in the introduction
6. The intention of the contemporaries
7. Structural comparability of Drumhead Courts-Martial and People’s Courts
8. Establishment and activities of Bavarian People’s Courts
9. Jurisdiction of the Bavarian People’s Courts
10. Establishment and activities of Bavarian Drumhead Courts-Martial
11. Intermezzo: Revolutionary tribunals during the Munich Soviet Republic
12. Abolition efforts
13. Four years state of emergency?
14. Summary: Bavarian People’s Courts—Victor’s justice of successful state subversives?
«Volk» and «Justice» under the Third Reich
1. Preliminary remarks
2. The source of the law is the «Volk»
3. The «Volk» is the judge
Mob Justice and Violence in France during Liberation (Summer 1944)
1. Introduction
2. The feared civil war that failed to materialize
3. «La Liberation»
4. Rumors and revenge: the prime movers of mob justice
5. A decisive element: rumors, half information – half accusation
6. Liberating violence
7. Gender-oriented mob justice or male revenge
8. The head-shaving incident at Voiron
Popular Justice and Iconoclasm in Post-War East Germany. Premodern Rites of Violence in the (De)Legitimation of Modern States
1. Introduction
2. Dishonoring the regime and the emotional work of East German society
3. The times and spaces of iconoclasm
4. Restoring and redefining community in rituals of violence
5. Conclusion
«Volksgerichte» in Austria (1945-1955)
1. Introduction
2. Legal bases: «Verbotsgesetz» and «Kriegsverbrechergesetz»
3. The formation of «Volksgerichte»
4. Who represented the «public» in these courts?
5. The abolition of the «Volksgerichte»
6. What did the courts achieve?
- a. Proceedings against «illegals»
- b. «November criminals»
- c. «Euthanasia»
- d. «Endphasenverbrechen» (final stage crimes)
7. Conclusions
Nazi Crimes in the Judgment of the People. The Bavarian Jury Court in the Post-war Period
1. The field of research
2. «Jury courts» – «mixed courts»
3. Rejection of the jury court after 1945
4. Reintroduction of the jury court in Bavaria
5. Legal structure of the Bavarian jury court
6. Bavarian jury court jurisdiction
- a. Experience reports
- b. Condemnation of Nazi injustice
7. The end of the Bavarian jury court
Index