A new volume in the series
"Rättshistoriska studier", published by the Olin Foundation, has
recently been published: Legal history Reflecting the Past and the Present –
Current Perspectives for the Future (ed. Kjell Å Modéer).
ABOUT THE BOOK
”In 2016 – 18 Lund University in
Sweden celebrated its 350 years of existence. In 1666 the new university got
its constitution, and in 1668 January 28 the university was inaugurated. At the
Law Faculty this celebration was observed with several seminars and symposia.
In November 2017 the legal historians at Lund arranged an international
symposium dedicated to the doctores honoris causæ within the discipline of
legal history at the Law faculty. The theme for this historiographical
symposium was the impact of and interaction with the nine Nordic, European and
American scholars who received their honorary degrees at the Lund Law Faculty
from 1990 up to today. This volume is dedicated to them.
This volume gives examples of
history of knowledge in action in a dynamic scholarly environment within legal
history from the post-World War II up to today. The diversity of the research
areas – their networks and theoretical and methodological discourses – exemplifies
the “Historical turn” within the law, and demonstrate the development of the
internationalized – and even globalized – discipline of legal history within in
the late modernity during the last quarter century. Each of the nine honorary
doctors gives in an article a presentation of their scholarly work, as well as
a number of internationally established European scholars elaborate on their
current perspectives on legal history – reflecting on the past and the future.”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface – Mia Rönnmar
Foreword – Johan Hirschfeldt
Introduction
1. Law, Time and Place: Legal
history: The Lund perspective:
A tribute to our honorary doctors
Kjell Å Modéer
2. Presence of mind and the
future of legal history
Matthew Dyson
Part I
Supreme Courts
3. Die höchsten Gerichte und Rechtliche Zeitgeschichte – ”The Supreme
Courts” and ”Contemporary Legal History”
Bernhard Diestelkamp
4. Central Courts, an
inexhaustible Source of information for Legal History
Serge Dauchy
5. The Wismar Tribunal: A survey
of the research
Nils Jörn
Part II
Legal Cultures
6. ”That’s the way I am”:
Lawrence M Friedman in interview
Kjell Å Modéer
7. Legal Culture as a tool for
legal analysis
Jörn Øyrehagen Sunde
8. A spatial history of Swedish
rural courts
Eva Löfgren
Part III
Contemporary Legal History
9. Social law, contemporary legal
history and the history of public law
Michael Stolleis
10. The Ghost of the King. Traces
of ‘Royal Majesty’ in the Swedish constitution of 1974
Henrik Wenander
11. A short comment on the
history of administrative law and Michael Stolleis
Mats Kumlien
Part IV
Intellectual Legal History
12. Nordic Legal Science –
Diversity and Unity
Lars Björne
13. Legal Compilation in early
modern Denmark and Norway: Creatively recycling the law
Sören Koch
Part V
Comparative Legal History
14. Understanding the law in
historical and comparative perspectives
Reinhard Zimmermann
15. Law émigré Max Rheinstein
(1899 – 1977): A comparatist in pre-war Germany and post-war America
Kjell Å Modéer
Part VI
European Legal Integration
16. The Europeanization of legal
cultures
Pia Letto-Vanamo
17. The rule of law as a
criterion for Europe
Martin Sunnqvist
18. A kaleidoscope of people: The
legal cultures of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of
Justice
Nina-Louisa Arold Lorenz
Part VII
Legal History and Legal Science
19. The temporalities of
constitutions
Dag Michalsen
20. Constitutions and
Codifications 1667 – 2017. A legal historian’s reflection
Dag Michalsen
21. Why legal history matters:
Dangerous social sciences and the authoritarian state Heikki Pihlajamäki
22. Concluding remarks: The
future of legal history
Lena Foljanty
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(Source: Rattshistoria)
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