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 …

Since the 1990s, the attempts to supplement the conventional, overwhelmingly national
historiographical traditions via the introduction of a global dimension have been on the rise …

" 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 …

Jede Neuerung muss allerdings darlegen, dass sie im Vergleich zum status quo
Erkenntnischancen birgt und nicht bloß effektvoll das Rad neu erfindet. Denn gerade die …

El artículo propone entender la historia del derecho como una historia de la producción de
saberes normativos a través de los procesos de traducción cultural. Esta perspectiva puede …

For decades, jurists all over the world have been witnessing the dynamic growth of
'Transnational Law'. 1 Seemingly new kinds of normative orders are emerging, independent …

" The numerous editions and early translations produced throughout the eighteenth century
enabled the broad dissemination of Emer de Vattel's juridical-political work Droit des gens …

Legal institutions are created at a certain point in time, intended to be applied to 'life'as it is
perceived at the specific moment when they are elaborated and cast into legal form. As a …

This chapter is about the relations between the national legal system and the 'other'—
especially from the creation of the modern nation state in the early nineteenth century and …

This working paper aims to contribute to the transdisciplinary debates on how to analyze
asymmetric forms of dependency at the BCDSS from the perspective of a legal historian …