@article{2014:duve:rechtsgesc,
title = {Rechtsgeschichte – Traditionen und Perspektiven},
year = {2014},
note = {On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Goethe
University, Frankfurt, the piece traces some institutional and
analytical traditions of research into the history of law in Germany
in the past century. By highlighting the final years of Imperial
Germany under the Kaiser and then the Bonn- and Berlin-based German
Republics, it becomes clear that, irrespective of all the changes in
systems and world wars which have been experienced, radical changes
can be seen to have occurred in the conditions surrounding research
into the history of law, especially in terms of the legal and academic
system, precisely during the last quarter of a century. For this
reason, even such a relatively small-scale discipline as
German-language research into the history of law needs to reflect on
the consequences of the creation of world-wide structures and the
transnational development of academic studies and law. This is all the
more true as the history of law, like German Law studies as a whole,
could make an important contribution to the transnational studies of
law which are coming into existence - and thereby itself help to open
up fascinating intellectual possibilities.},
journal = {KritV Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft},
pages = {96--132},
author = {Duve, Thomas},
volume = {97},
number = {2}
}