Hubert Rottleuthner

Hubert Rottleuthner (* 1944 ) is a German legal scholar , legal sociologist and former university professor.

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Rottleuthner studied law , philosophy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt am Main . There he was in 1972 with the right philosophical work "Judiciary action: A Critique of legal doctrine" Dr. phil. PhD. After completing his legal training, he became a professor at the full chair for legal philosophy and legal sociology at the Free University of Berlin in 1975 . He also became head of the Institute for Legal Sociology and Legal Fact Research. He held this chair until his retirement in 2011.

In Rottleuthner's research, the sociology of law is the focus. He focuses primarily on empirical legal sociology, particularly in the field of judicial research and anti-discrimination law, as well as contemporary legal history , particularly during the time of National Socialism in Germany and the GDR .

Fonts (selection)

• Judicial action: on the criticism of legal dogmatics . Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 978-3-7610-5863-3 (dissertation).
• Law as a social science . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 978-3-436-01738-5 .
• Legal theory and legal sociology . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 1981, ISBN 978-3-495-47448-8 .
• Introduction to the sociology of law . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 978-3-534-02334-9 .
• with Margret Rottleuthner-Lutter: The duration of court proceedings: Evaluation of the ZPO simplification amendment . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 978-3-7890-2030-8 .
• with Ellen Böhm and Daniel Gasterstädt: Legal factual investigation into the use of the single judge . Bundesanzeiger, Cologne 1992, ISBN 978-3-88784-350-2 .
• Relief through deformalization ?: Legal factual investigations into the practice of § 495a ZPO and § 313 StPO . CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-406-43191-3 .
• Injustices: Notes on the Western Culture of Suffering . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3141-4 .
• Careers and continuities of German legal counsel before and after 1945 . BWV, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1631-6 .
• with Matthias Mahlmann : Discrimination in Germany: Assumptions and facts . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-5578-6 .

literature

• Matthias Mahlmann (Hrsg.): Society and Justice - Festschrift for Hubert Rottleuthner . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6167-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hubert Rottleuthner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hubert Rottleuthner at his former chair at the University of Frankfurt am Main
• If the lawyers had really been positivists, they would have refused to do a lot , interview with Hubert Rottleuthner