(Source: Universitätsverlag Winter)
Universitätsverlag
Winter Heidelberg has recently published a book on the life of the legal
historian Paul Koschaker
ABOUT THE BOOK
The aim of this
book is to investigate the life and work of Paul Koschaker (1879–1951), who was
one of the most prominent legal historians in the first half of the 20th
century. From the 1930s onwards, Koschaker is renowned for having attempted to
reaffirm the authority of Roman law, which was experiencing a major crisis at
German universities at the time, mainly due to the Nazi regime’s disdain for
this subject. Above all, he sought to emphasise the role Roman law played as
the cornerstone of European legal tradition, as was masterfully depicted in his
book ‘Europa und das römische Recht’. Yet Koschaker also had many other areas
of interest throughout his career, including cuneiform law and comparative
legal history.
More
specifically, this book attempts to provide the first comprehensive study of
Koschaker’s biographical experiences, as well as his scientific and academic
stances, which have come to light as a result of the discovery and analysis of
numerous previously unpublished archival sources.
The table of
contents can be found
here
More information
here
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