Mit der Europäischen Rechtsgeschichte verfügt die Rechtsgeschichte seit vielen
Jahrzehnten über eine Tradition transnationaler rechtshistorischer Forschung. Sie wurde …

For decades, we have learned from authors like Helmut Coing, Franz Wieacker, Harold
Berman, Peter Stein, Manlio Bellomo, Paolo Prodi,–to name but a few–that one of Europe's …

" Legal History presents a broad panorama of historical processes that trigger theoretical
reflections on legal transfers and legal transplants and on the problem of the reception and …

" Introduction In a letter to Max Radin on April 2, 1933, Hermann Kantorowicz writes how the
situation in Germany took a turn for the worse after the Nazis took power: What is happening …

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 …

Are we entitled to consider the exiled German legal historians of Jewish origin, Fritz
Pringsheim, Fritz Schulz and David Daube, on equal footing with Franz Wieacker, Paul …

The biography of an Austrian specialist in Roman law, Paul Koschaker (1879–1951), who
spent the Nazi-time as an elderly professor at important law faculties of Germany, such as …

Legal historians are strangely convinced that they possess knowledge of criteria that allow
the historical borders of Europe to be determined. 1 In the East of the continent, these …

Based on a recent biography of Franz Wieacker (1908–1994) two central questions are
examined. Is it allowed to analyze a young, but already prominent German law professor of …

Preliminary remarks. According to recent studies in law and economics,» legal origins «, and
in particular the influence of Roman law or the absence thereof, explain the difference …