Klostermann Verlag published “Austria
inventa? Zu den Anfängen der
österreichischen Staatsrechtslehre” at the end of last year.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This is the first work of its
kind devoted to Austrian constitutional law, which has so far received little
attention in (legal) historical research. It examines its origins, its authors,
its connection with the “Reichspublizistik”, its sources and methods as well as
its contents and, last but not least, its role in university teaching. Of all
the particular state rights in the Holy Roman Empire, its subject was probably the
one most intensively discussed. In the second half of the 18th century,
Austrian constitutional law was a flourishing genre of literature promoted by
the Habsburg dynasty. This is accounted for by its main themes: It flanked the
process of internal integration of the heterogeneous Habsburg ruling complex
and aimed at the discursive and legal construction of an Austrian state as a
whole and the legitimation of absolutism.
The table of contents can be
found here
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