"An English translation of Carl Schmitt's "Legalitat und Legitimitat" is long overdue. "Legality and Legitimacy" concludes the critique of legal positivism and the rationality of statute law he began in "The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy" and "Political Theology" and does so in the historical context of Weimar's final crisis. It was an important argument at the time and is just as significant seventy-odd years later."--Ellen Kennedy, author of "Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar"