Tag: Rechtsgeschichte
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Pardon – balancing justice or arbitrary act?
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The right to pardon usually leads a discreet existence in today’s constitutional states, but thanks to the American presidential election, it has recently hit the headlines. First, the outgoing incumbent Joe Biden aroused attention with…
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“Issues of great importance for understanding the contemporary world”
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Interview with Sebastian M. Spitra on law, colonialism and the history of empires Legal historian Dr Sebastian M. Spitra has been a research professor at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg since October 2024. We spoke to…
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The ancient Roman law of codicils
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Testamentary dispositions in the Imperium Romanum Report on the conference on 13–15 November 2024 The ancient Roman law of codicils responded to a demand in society for more flexibility in forming testamentary dispositions. In doing…
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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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“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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| FocusPluralism of what? On Laws, and on Rights – in Translation
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European legal terminology is often organised in dichotomies. In the continental languages, this holds true for the concept of law itself, which can be ius or lex, droit or loi, diritto or legge, Recht or Gesetz. These dichotomies cannot easily be translated into English. The problem does…
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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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“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…
