Lederer’s brief review evaluates Jünger’s expanded handbook of wartime legislation chiefly for its practical accessibility. Roughly four times the size of the first edition, it collects important war laws and ordinances. Lederer praises its combination of a chronological listing with a subject-based arrangement, including some verbatim reproductions.
The alphabetical index makes this accumulation usable; his account of its scope also registers how extensively war has transformed legal and economic life:
Ein alphabetisches Register ermöglicht überaus leicht die Orientierung in dem ungeheuren Material, welches ja nicht nur die Regelung der gesamten Volkswirtschaft durch den Staat im Kriege, sondern darüber hinaus die zahllosen privat- und öffentlich-rechtlichen Änderungen mit umfaßt.
English translation: An alphabetical index makes orientation exceedingly easy in the immense material, which comprises not only the regulation of the entire national economy by the state in wartime but beyond that the countless changes in private and public law.
The review moves from expansion and organization to coverage and limits. Its favorable judgment concerns a reference tool for navigating state economic regulation alongside changes in private and public law, while qualifying its territorial reach:
Von der einzelstaatlichen Gesetzgebung sind lediglich die preußischen Erlasse aufgeführt bzw. abgedruckt.
English translation: Of the legislation of the individual states, only the Prussian decrees are listed or reprinted.
Lederer closes by dating the included provisions to 1 July 1916, thus specifying the handbook’s temporal as well as territorial boundaries.
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