Carl Schmitt's Early Legal-Theoretical Writings

Statute and Judgment and the Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual

Lars Vinx, Samuel Garrett Zeitlin

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781108494489
• eBook ISBN: 9781108787765
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Public Law
• Index: Law

Many of Carl Schmitt's major works have by now been translated, with two notable exceptions: Schmitt's two early monographs Statute and Judgment (first published in 1912) and The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual (first published in 1914). In these two works Schmitt presents a theory of adjudication as well as an account of the state's role in the realization of the rule of law, which together form the theoretical basis on which Schmitt later developed his political and constitutional theory. This new book makes these two key texts available in English translation for the first time, together with an introduction that relates the texts to their historical context, to Schmitt's other works, and to contemporary discussions in legal and constitutional theory.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Reviews
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Carl Schmitt and the Problem of the Realization of Law
• Statute and Judgment: A Note on the Text and the Translation
• Statute and Judgment
• The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual: A Note on the Text and the Translation
• The Value of the State and the Significance of theIndividual
• Bibliography
• Index