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This article focuses on the ius theutonicum Magdeburgense, its meaning and functions, attempting to understand what ius theutonicum meant for contemporaries. It starts with the present interpretation of the term. This is followed by a detailed analysis of the available medieval privileges for Magdeburg law issued for towns in Galician Rus’. The result was not an identification or "reconstruction" of a particular "law" or combination of different "laws" adopted in town courts of Galician Rus’ under the term ius theutonicum. It was rather the recognition that the notion called ius theutonicum in medieval documents was an adaptable pattern applicable to different conditions, a model with many variants or a general set of principles which was filled with real content and adapted to concrete circumstances.
Abseits von Europas Hauptverkehrswegen fand vom 7. bis 10. Mai 2008 das XIV. Europäische Forum junger Rechtshistoriker/innen statt: in der kleinen Universitätsstadt Pécs, gelegen im Südwesten Ungarns. Selbst mit dem Schnellzug ist es gut vier Stunden vom Budapest Keleti pályaudvar entfernt, wo sich die Bahnlinien aus allen Himmelsrichtungen und Metropolen Europas treffen. So stellte sich bei der Suche nach Reiseverbindungen schnell das Gefühl ein, in einen abgelegenen Winkel des Kontinents zu reisen. Doch Zentrum und Peripherie waren Denkkategorien, die im Verlauf der Tagung gehörig in Frage gestellt werden sollten. ...
Marie Theres Fögen ist nur einundsechzig Jahre alt geworden. Sie wurde Opfer eines plötzlich im April 2007 ausgebrochenen Leidens. Im Herbst des Jahres kam sie noch einmal ausgeruht aus Italien zurück, schien gut erholt und guter Dinge. Die Bewilligung eines von ihr maßgeblich bestimmten Antrags (Exzellenzcluster) gab ihr Auftrieb. Wir hofften damals noch auf Genesung. ...
One of the current trends in international law scholarship is the question of which influences specific legal cultures have on the understanding of international law. This contribution will trace the conditions of a German perspective and analyse the debate against the background of positive law. We will try to assess what the debate adds to the general theory of international law, how it fits into demands of legitimacy of international governance, and whether it contributes to a sensible reconstruction of current law. Furthermore, we try to develop our own perspective that matches the system of international law and is plausible in terms of international legal theory. For that purpose, we will first take It is probably in this context that the contention has to be understood that the ongoing debate on the constitutionalisation of public international law is particularly European, if not German. Whether or not this is the case is difficult to investigate with a lawyer’s tools. However, the idea that international law is the constitution of mankind has found many adherents in German legal writings. This contribution will trace the conditions of a German perspective and analyse the debate against the background of positive law. We will try to assess what the debate adds to the general theory of international law, how it fits into demands of legitimacy of international governance, and whether it contributes to a sensible reconstruction of current law. Furthermore, we try to develop our own perspective that matches the system of international law and is plausible in terms of international legal theory. For that purpose, we will first take up the debate and find its place in the landscape of international legal theory. In this context, we try to shed light on the central concepts used or presupposed when constitutionalisation is discussed by German-speaking scholars (see below, section B). Furthermore, we will discuss structures in positive law which are used as arguments in the debate (section C). Finally, we will try to give an account of constitutionalisation in terms of both sources doctrine and legal theory (section D), before drawing conclusions from the discussion (section E).