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Critiques Schmitt's comparative-historical state theory.
Jeffrey Seitzer has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History and at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London.
"Among the studies that deal with Carl Schmitt the catholic, ' the
theoretician of the Reich," the decisionist, ' among other
characterizations, Jeffrey Seitzer presents us in his Comparative
History and Legal Theory: Carl Schmitt in the First German
Democracy with an entirely new perspective. Drawing on an
impressive knowledge of the Schmitt literature in general and of
Schmitt's Constitutional Theory and Guardian of Constitution in
particular, Seitzer brilliantly analyzes Schmitt's use of
comparative historical arguments and their normative
transformations, in the end developing his own version of
democratic politics as institutional dialogue."-Prof. Michael
Stolleis J.W. Goethe University Executive Director, Max-Planck
Institute for European Legal History
"Seitzer's work stands out amidst the recent deluge of scholarship
on Carl Schmitt, and it promises to occupy an important position in
the intellecutual history of inter-war Germany. At the centre of
this work is a sober, discriminating and historically nuanced
positioning of Schmitt's constitutional reflections against the
practical legal realities of the Weimer Republic. Schmitt's thought
emerges from this perspective in a light which is admirably free of
demonstrative and polemical gestures. This is likely to add a new
dimension to the reception of Schmitt's constitutional theory in
the English-speaking world."-Chris Thornhill Lecturer, Department
of German King's College, London
?The study by Jeffrey Seitzer....Seitzer convincingly presents the
connection between 'Comparative History and Legal Theory'.?-German
Historical Institute London
"The study by Jeffrey Seitzer....Seitzer convincingly presents the
connection between 'Comparative History and Legal Theory'."-German
Historical Institute London
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