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Darker Legacies Of Anti-corruption: Fascist Criticisms of the Law in Inter-war Romania

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to open a new way of understanding corruption by examining its place within the law and culture of the European semi-periphery, with a focus on inter-war Romania. My intention is to operate a twofold displacement of the analysis of the anti-corruption and the status of constitutional practice in this context. First, I aim to reposition the question of political corruption within a jurisprudential and legal historical context. In this way I inquire what is the legal theoretical importance of political corruption in a post-dependency context? In other words, what can the representation of corruption entail for law, and for a particular legal historical trajectory within the European periphery. Second, I move towards exploring the context of the inter-war period as well as the discursive construction of political corruption within the law and through the fascist criticism levelled against it.

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legal historycontemporary historylegal theoryfascismconstitutional theory
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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: Property in the Sharing Economy: Paradox, Disruption, and Institutional Design , December 2024 , pp. 529 - 548
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