Journal der Juristischen Zeitgeschichte
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About this journal
The discipline of "legal contemporary history" has been developing over the past few years along the edges of legal studies, legal history, and general history. The methodology debate and research activities have expanded and intensified. Attorneys and historians are learning from one another:
Legal contemporary history encompasses more than the dogmatic history of legal institutions (but does not exclude them); on the one hand, it expands upon the traditional instruments of legal history in view of general history and the history of neighboring disciplines. The dimensions of general history, political history, social and cultural history, which were often neglected by attorneys until just recently, are being taken into consideration. Attorneys now consult more frequently archives, stati stical methods and findings, and even fictional texts and historical literary findings. On the other hand, the traditional legal history instruments are expanded upon from a legal viewpoint. Questions regarding source material and their interpretations are also discussed in regard to legal theoretical and philosophical critique of the (or a) legal development.
Legal contemporary history understood in this manner can be applied as an instrument of legal political critique of current law (as the endpoint of a successful or failed legal development) and the Journal of Contemporary Legal History is dedicated to promoting this manner of understanding.
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Editors
Professor Dr. Dr. Thomas Vormbaum
FernUniversität Hagen
Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft
Universitätsstraße 21
58084 Hagen
E-Mail: thomas.vormbaum@fernuni-hagen.de
Professor Dr. Andreas Bergmann
FernUniversität Hagen
E-Mail: Andreas.Bergmann@fernuni-hagen.de
Professor Dr. Stephan Stübinger
FernUniversität Hagen
E-Mail: stephan.stuebinger@fernuni-hagen.de
In collaboration with
Marianne Birthler, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Peter Brandt, Hagen
Prof. Dr. Johann Braun, Passau
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Brauneder, Wien
Prof. Dr. Ettore Dezza, Pavia
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulrich Eisenhardt, Hagen
Gisela Friedrichsen, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Emanuela Fronza, Trento
Prof. Dr. Christoph Gusy, Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Francisco Muñoz Conde, Sevilla
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Naucke, Frankfurt / Main
Rechtsanwalt Prof. Dr. Franz Salditt, Neuwied / Hagen
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schild, Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Hans Schulte-Nölke, Osnabrück
Prof. Kanako Takayama, Kyoto
Dr. Richard F. Wetzell, Washington D.C
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