Abstract
This article analyzes how Carl Schmitt’s theoretical work, especially the “concrete order thought”, influenced by institutionalism, contributed to the Nazi transformations of German law. Through a bibliographic analysis, I demonstrate that the combination of institutionalism and decisionism in Schmitt’s work supported the Nazi legal order and gave a prominent role to anti-formalist and anti-positivist methods of legal interpretation as instruments for the nazification of law.
Keywords:
Carl Schmitt; Nazism; Institutionalism