En ny volym i serien Rättshistoriska studier har utkommit: Legal history Reflecting the Past and the Present – Current Perspectives for the Future (red. Kjell Å Modéer).

Bokens innehåll beskrivs på följande sätt:

”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.”

Innehållsförteckning:

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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