“What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?”

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Der Vorleser

1995

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Die Gordische Schleife

1988

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Selbs Mord

2001

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Selbs Betrug

1992

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