
What happens when a legal system is replaced overnight by its ideological opposite? When people used to being coddled and disciplined by their law have to adjust to a State which expects them to look out for themselves? When men and women trained to serve and to legitimate their...

This book is an account of the sudden death of Socialist law in East Germany and of the reacions, hopes and fears of some of its survivors. What happens when a legal system is replaced overnight by its ideological opposite? When people used to being coddled and disciplined by...