Inga Markovits

Inga Markovits (born June 25, 1937 in Germany as Inga Schulthes) is an American law scholar and university professor of German origin. She holds The Friends of Joe Jamail Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin .

Life

Markovits received her doctorate in 1969 from the Free University of Berlin on civil law in the German Democratic Republic before emigrating to the USA . In 1989/1990 she traveled to East Berlin and Wismar , among others , in order to investigate judicial practice and the mentality of judges and lawyers in the GDR in numerous discussions and file studies. She published her results in two books: The settlement (about the end of the GDR justice system in the last few weeks before reunification) and Justice in Lüritz (about the Wismar district court , which is pseudonymised in the book under the name "Lüritz").

Markovits received the Ellen Maria Gorrisen Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin in 2012 and is a fellow of this academy.

Fonts (selection)

• Socialist and bourgeois civil law thinking in the GDR . (= Treatises on Eastern Law; Vol. 7). Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1969 (also dissertation, Free University Berlin, 1966)
• The transaction. A diary on the end of the GDR justice system . Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37316-X
  • English translation: Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary , Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-825814-8 ; Clarendon Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-825814-8 ( review )
• Justice in Lüritz. An East German legal history . Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-55054-6
  • English translation: Justice in Lüritz. Experiencing socialist law in East Germany . Princeton University Press Princeton 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-14347-7
• Legal sociology for outsiders . In: How does law work? Selected contributions to the first joint congress of the German-speaking legal sociology associations, Lucerne 4.-6. September 2008 . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5397-3
• Constitution Making After National Catastrophes: Germany in 1949 and 1990 . In: William and Mary Law Review 49, 2008 ( full text ; PDF; 279 kB)
• Servant of two masters: GDR lawyers between law and power . Berlin: Ch. Links, 2020, ISBN 978-3-96289-085-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Inga Markovits in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Inga Markovits in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Inga Markovits at the University of Texas (with list of publications)
• Inga Markovits in the University of Texas magazine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/im83/
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.