TY - JOUR A1 - Collin, Peter T1 - How to describe the law of the welfare state? T2 - Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history N2 - About 200 years ago, legal concepts based on the idea of formal equality prevailed. Over the last 150 years, however, the law has tried on a large scale to establish substantive equality, or at least to alleviate social and economic imbalances. To this day, the law which has undertaken this task has grown in scope and become increasingly differentiated. It has become one of the most important components of modern legal systems and has a history with its own distinctive contours. The terms used to summarise the corresponding legal materials are manifold: law of the welfare state, law of the provident state (état providence) (François Ewald), social law, social welfare law, etc. ... Y1 - 2019 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51140 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-511406 SN - 2195-9617 SN - 1619-4993 N1 - Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License SP - 286 EP - 287 PB - Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte CY - Frankfurt, M. ER -