Category: Interview
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“On a legal level, a common ‘Weltanschauung’ never existed”
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Interview with Ferdinando Mazzarella about the Committee for Italian-German legal relations In the 1930s, Fascist Italy under Mussolini and National Socialist Germany agreed on closer political cooperation and entered into a military alliance as the…
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“The bull required seclusion in the ghetto”
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Interview with Giacomo Mariani about the papal persecution of Ancona’s Jewish community The expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in the 1490s marked a turning point for Jewish life and Jewish identity in…
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“Roman law is open towards foreign legal customs”
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Interview with Éva Jakab on Greek customs in Roman inheritance law The transfer of assets from one generation to the next is a key social process, and already had a legal framework in antiquity. Dealing…
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“Society was torn back and forth between modern and conservative tendencies”
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Interview with Hesi Siimets-Gross on how private law developed in Estonia during the interwar period The modern era is considered the age of legal standardisation. Not only were the emerging nation states the result of…
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“Standardisation was never a goal of the Peruvian liberal legislator”
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Interview with Armando Guevara Gil on the legal history of Peru and the potential of micro-historical analyses In 1821, Peru gained independence from the Spanish colonial empire. Despite the new legal codes issued in the…
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“Following one norm meant violating the other”
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Interview with Hillard von Thiessen on early modern competitions of norms and the role of law Nowadays, a person who tried to excuse himself after a bar fight and the subsequent charge of assault by…
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“A period of great importance for state-building”
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Interview with Mia Korpiola about the legal reforms under the Vasa kings Legal historian Mia Korpiola has researched a turbulent phase of Swedish history at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg. It begins with a bloodbath in…
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“The Golden Bull became a protective shield with a quill”
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Interview with Eva Schlotheuber about the first basic law of the Holy Roman Empire About the Author Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber holds the Chair of Medieval History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She was a fellow…
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“A legal system can comprise countless exceptions”
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Interview with Ulrike Ludwig and Peter Oestmann about the annual topic “Exception and Plurality” Exceptions confirm the rule. This everyday saying sums up a reciprocal and mutually dependent relationship. An exception can only be made…
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“What remains of the colonial period? Everything.”
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Interview with Heikki Pihlajamäki on early modern colonial laws The police legislation of the early modern period, which attempted to legally regulate wide areas of people‘s lives, has been extensively studied since the 1970s, especially…