Awards

• Winner of J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association 2011.
• Winner of James Willard Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association 2011
• Winner of James Willard Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association 2011.

Overview

As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court, she knew that she had found her mailbox.

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Praise for the original German edition: A wonderful book. -- Uwe Wesel Die Zeit Praise for the original German edition: Brilliant... It's astonishing what [Markovits] unearthed... The history of East German law will never be written in a more readable or deeply likeable way ... or with such freshness and proximity to the subject. -- Michael Stolleis Frankfurter Allgemeine

Praise for the original German edition: A wonderful book. -- Uwe Wesel, Die Zeit Praise for the original German edition: Brilliant... It's astonishing what [Markovits] unearthed... The history of East German law will never be written in a more readable or deeply likeable way ... or with such freshness and proximity to the subject. -- Michael Stolleis, Frankfurter Allgemeine

Author Information

Inga Markovits holds the Friends of Jamail Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary .

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