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Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Germanistische Abteilung

  • Edited by: Hans-Peter Haferkamp , Peter Oestmann and Tilman Repgen
Languages: German, French, Spanish, English, Italian
First published: August 1, 1861
Publication Frequency: 1 issue per year
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About this journal

The Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte (ZRG, also known as the Savigny Journal) represents an integral part of European legal history research, having made a significant contribution to the current state of the discipline. Each section publishes a new volume per year.

The division of ZRG into the Romanistische, Germanistische, and Kanonistische Abteilung (since 1910) is based on the differentiation of the legal-historical subjects at that time. This is no longer self-explanatory, and in particular, Germanistisch is often misunderstood. Today, the sections have the following profile:
The Romanistische Abteilung is dedicated to the entire ancient history of law and the dogmatic broadcasts to the present day,
The Kanonistische Abteilung is dedicated to the entire history of ecclesiastical law, and
The Germanistische Abteilung is dedicated to the rest of entire European legal history since late antiquity to the present day.

Regular features of the Germanistische Abteilung are as follows: essays, guest contribution (from international research), miscellanea (as smaller research contributions), a detailed literature section, obituaries, reports and chronicles. The essays and miscellanea are preceded by an English summary. The Germanistische Abteilung usually has 600–800 pages.

The other sections‘ websites:

Kanonistische Abteilung:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zrgk

Romanistische Abteilung:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zrgr

ZRGG is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. All submitted papers are read by at least three peer reviewers. At least one of the reviewers does not belong to the editorial board (double-blind peer-review).

History

The first predecessor of the ZRG as we know it today was created and sponsored in 1815 by Friedrich Carl von Savigny and C. F. Eichhorn in the spirit of the German Historical School.
A close association with the Savigny-Stiftung, whose name ZRG now bears, allowed for the familiar division into a Romanistische and Germanistische Abteilung in 1880.
In 1911, a Kanonistische Abteilung was added.
The first volumes of the Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (ZRG) were published in 1880 by Hermann Böhlau in Weimar.

CiteScore 0.1 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025)
SCImago Journal Rank 0.148 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper 0.140 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus)

General Requirements:

Manuscripts accepted for publication should be ready for print in terms of content, spelling, grammar, and typesetting. The file format should be Microsoft Word.

All contributors have to accept the copyright transfer agreement, according to which the rights to the text are reserved to the publisher for the first year after publication.

Research articles and miscellanies are to be preceded by

- the author’s contact details that may be published online

- any messages for the editors

- the running head

- the translation of the title into English

- an English abstract

- five English keywords

Text layout:

ZRG’ font isTimes New Roman. En dashes and quotation marks are to be entered consistently correctly ("1-2f."), as are paragraphs and spaces. Old languages are italicized in the manuscript without quotation marks, only longer source citations can be in regular font as a separate paragraph in smaller print. Special characters and special requests should be noted separately. For Ancient Greek, "GR Times New Roman" is recommended. - Footnotes are always placed before the punctuation mark.

Footnotes:

begin with a capital letter and end with a period. First and last names of authors are underlined in the footnotes (please do not use spaced letters!). Please put slashes between multiple authors. Book titles, essay titles, and journal titles are not emphasized, not even by quotation marks. Upon the first citation, the long citation must be given along with the place and year of publication. Series titles are not included in the footnotes. The publication year is always given between commas before the page number; for journals, however, is it advisable to state the year in round brackets. S., § or fol. are sometimes used for clarification. Abbreviations and acronyms are to be written out at the first mention. - Second citations are very short concrete references back to the preceding long citation (withour cf. or ibid.). Parentheses within parentheses are to be avoided.

Citation style:

This journal is cited (example): ZRG 125 KA 94 (2008) 1, respectively ZRG GA 125 (2008) 1, ZRG RA 125 (2008) 1. The abbreviations D. 1,1,1 pr., A.D., 1f./ff., (ed.)/(ed.), p., note, vol., lit., e.g., cf., etc., etc., fol./foll. are common, please write out others.

Book Reviews:

Please make sure that the review header gives all bibliographic information, at any rate series title, publisher, place of publication, year of publication, edition, volume.

Corrections:

Apart from editorial preparation, there is no proofreading or at most one proofreading pass to check the typesetting.

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Editorial deadlines

Deadlines for manuscripts are:

June 15 (for essays and miscellanies),

November 15 (for literature and obituaries),

ifor the volume of the following year.

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Haferkamp
Institut für Neuere Privatrechtsgeschichte,
Deutsche und Rheinische Rechtsgeschichte
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
Germany
hans-peter.haferkamp@uni-koeln.de
Aufgabengebiet: Aufsätze, Miszellen und Rezensionen

Prof. Dr. Peter Oestmann
Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Universitätsstraße 14–16
48143 Münster
Germany
oestmann@uni-muenster.de
Aufgabengebiet: Aufsätze, Miszellen und Rezensionen

Prof. Dr. Tilman Repgen
Universität Hamburg
Fakultät f. Rechtswissenschaft
Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, Neuere Privatrechtsgeschichte und Bürgerliches Recht
Rothenbaumchaussee 33
20148 Hamburg
Germany
tilman.repgen@uni-hamburg.de
Aufgabengebiet: Aufsätze, Miszellen und Rezensionen

Editorial Board:

Mia Korpiola (University of Turku, Finnland)
Johannes Liebrecht (Zürich University, Switzerland)
Marju Luts-Sootak, University of Tartu, Estonia)
Maciej Mikuła (Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland)
Thiago Reis (Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School Sao Paulo, Brasil)
Masaki Taguchi (Tokyo University, Japan)
Cristina Vano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

Redaktion:

DDr. Reingard Rauch
Waldheimatweg 33
A-8010 Graz/Austria

Tel: (0043) 664 194 6959 (mobil)

r.rauch_zrg@degruyter.com

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Additional information
eISSN:
2304-4861
ISSN:
0323-4045
Languages:
German, French, Spanish, English, Italian
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Additional information
First published:
August 1, 1861
Publication Frequency:
1 issue per year
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