18 May 2021

BOOK: Kjell A. MODEER (ed.), Legal history Reflecting the Past and the Present – Current Perspectives for the Future (Stockholm: Jure Forlag, 2021). ISBN 9789186645151, 420 SEK).

 

(Source: Jure)

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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