Inga Markovits

Inga Markovits ( born June 25, 1937 in Germany as Inga Schulthes ) is a U.S. legal scholar and university teacher of German origin. She holds the Chair The Friends of Joe Jamail Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin.

Markovits received his doctorate in 1969 from the Free University of Berlin on the civil law in the German Democratic Republic before they emigrated to the United States. In the fall time 1989/1990 she traveled and more for East Berlin and Wismar to trace the judicial practice and the mentality of judges and lawyers in the GDR in numerous conversations and file studies. Their results are published in two books: the settlement ( about the end of the East German judiciary in the last weeks before the reunion ) and justice in Lüritz (via the District Court Wismar, which is a pseudonym in the book under the name " Lüritz ").

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

Writings

(Selection)

• Socialist and bourgeois civil law thinking in the GDR. ( = Essays on Eastern Law, Vol 7). Publisher science and politics, Cologne 1969 ( zugl. dissertation, Free University of Berlin, 1966)
• The transaction. A diary at the end of the GDR justice. 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 )

• English translation: Justice in Lüritz. Experiencing socialist law in East Germany. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-14347-7