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8th Conference on Legal History in the Baltic Sea Area belongs to the prestigious cycle of conferences initiated in 2000 in Germany. The conferences were held in 2000 in Germany, in 2002 in Sweden, in 2004 in Finland, in 2006 in Germany again, in 2008 in Denmark, in 2010 in Estonia and Latvia, in 2012 once again in Germany. In 2015 the conference was organized for the first time in Poland at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The theme of the conference read: Judiciary and Society between Privacy and Publicity / Justiz und Gesellschaft zwischen Privatsphäre und Öffentlichkeit and comprised two original issues. The first was the family and the inheritance law history in the Baltic Sea region, while the second – the openness in judicial and administrative procedure as well as the information control in the latest legal history.
Denomination policy is an important part of the public life of the state. Central and local governments search for models that enable the shaping of relations between the state and denominational associations. This is also of significance in relation to the changes associated with migration and fluctuation of followers of various faiths. How is this search carried out? What does it lead to? The book analyzes the phenomenon of religious politics. In addition to concrete case studies, the volume includes contributions dealing with theoretical issues, such as methodological problems of research on religions and beliefs as a factor hindering the formation of religious politics, studies of religious politics as a component of research on religious politics, the search for regularities in the relationship between religious politics and geopolitics.
This open access book can be downloaded from link.springer.com Legal studies and consequently legal history focus on constitutional documents, believing in a nominalist autonomy of constitutional semantics. Reconsidering Constitutional Formation in the late 18th and 19th century, kept historic constitutions from being simply log-books for political experts through a functional approach to the interdependencies between constitution and public discourse. Sovereignty had to be ‘believed’ by the subjects and the political élites. Such a communicative orientation of constitutional processes became palpable in the ‘religious’ affinities of the constitutional preambles. They were held as â...
Magdeburg und Lübeck brachten während des Mittelalters Rechtsnormen hervor, welche europaweit eine Rolle spielten. Im Hanseraum verbreitete sich, vornehmlich auf den Handelswegen, das Lübecker Stadtrecht als ein zeitgemäßes Kaufmannsrecht, so dass hunderte von Städten des Ostseeraumes von diesem Recht beeinflusst wurden. Eine noch größere Stadtrechtsfamilie war jene von Magdeburg. Das Magdeburger Recht wurde von mehreren Tausend Städten und Orten zwischen der Elbe und dem Dnjepr sowie der Ostsee und dem Schwarzen Meer übernommen bzw. übertragen. Heute liegen diese ehemaligen Städte Magdeburger bzw. Lübecker Rechts in den Staaten Deutschland, Polen, Tschechien, Slowakei, Un- garn, Rumänien, Litauen, Lettland, Estland, Russland und der Ukraine. In dieser Tradition, die von Magdeburg und Lübeck im Spätmittelalter ihren Ausgang genommen hatte, kann zu Recht eine gemeinsame (rechts- )kulturgeschichtliche Klammer für ein neues friedliches Europa gesehen werden
Maciej Mikuła analyses the Ius municipale Magdeburgense, the most important collection of Magdeburg Law in late medieval Poland, and shows that the adaptation of Magdeburg Law was a complex process.
In the history of the development of Polish law and administration, the short period of the constitutional Duchy of Warsaw, and next of the Kingdom of Poland, was a special time. This is because it was the only moment in the 19th century when the Polish elites gained an opportunity to concentrate their efforts on the organization of the modern state machinery. This book presents the process of restructuring the administrative structures following the collapse of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw and before the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland in 1815. The author focuses on the approach of the Polish elites to the nascent modern state, increasing importance of administration within it and to the young Polish bureaucrats.
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
Mit den Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung des Sachsenspiegels, des Magdeburger Stadtrechts und verwandter Rechtsquellen in Polen wird Band 2 der Reihe "IVS SAXONICO-MAIDEBVRGENSE IN ORIENTE" vorgelegt. Das von der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig betriebene Forschungsvorhaben geht nicht nur den Einflüssen von und auf Rechtsnormen, sondern auch den Wirkungen der Rechtssprache im Untersuchungsgebiet nach. Eine wichtige einleitende Rolle spielt die gründliche Darstellung der Forschungsgeschichte, welche gerade im 20. Jahrhundert mehreren ideologisch-politischen Brüchen unterlag und für die Belange der Gegenwart kritisch hinterfragt werden muss. So wurde eine handbuchartige P...
The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics. Drawing on archival materials, a nuanced description is provided of the ethnically mixed Belarusian-Polish-Jewish border region where Lemkin grew up and which shaped him, clarifying at the same time some of the misinterpretations that have surrounded Lemkin’s life. Lemkin’s professional career and intellectual interests up to the time of his flight from Poland after the German aggression of 1939 are exhaustively described. In the latter part of the book, the author poses, among other things, the question of how Lemkin’s activities in the United States were influenced by the experience of the first almost 40 years of his life.
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and system...