Political justice : the use of legal procedure for political ends / by Otto Kirchheimer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- part I. Political justice: cases, causes, methods. Changes in the structure of state protection -- The political trial -- Legal repression of political organizations -- part II. The judge, the defendant, and the state. Conditions of judicial action -- The defendant, his lawyer, and the court -- "Democratic centralism" and political integration of the judiciary -- Trial by fiat of the successor regime -- part III. Political justice modified: asylum and clemency. Asylum -- The quality of mercy -- Summing up -- Appendix A. The Roman Empire and the Christians -- Appendix B. Guillaume du Vair: the case of the successful loyalty shift.