Contributions to the legal history of Austria
The contributions to the legal history of Austria - BRGÖ are a scientific, peer-reviewed journal that specializes in Austrian legal history and appears twice a year both online and in print from the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
Founding and publisher
The BRGÖ was founded in 2011 by the Commission for the Legal History of Austria (KRGÖ) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , which was dissolved in 2012, but re-established in 2014 and then took over the publication of the BRGÖ again. The editorial work has been done since 2012 by a department of the Institute for Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna , the “KRGÖ at the University of Vienna”.
The chief editor is the chairman of the commission
The committee members are co-editors
- Gerhard Ammerer ( University of Salzburg )
- Gabriele Haug-Moritz ( University of Graz )
- Herbert Kalb ( University of Linz )
- Herbert Matis ( Vienna University of Economics and Business )
- Christian Neschwara ( University of Vienna )
- Eva Ortlieb ( University of Vienna )
- Ilse Reiter-Zatloukal ( University of Vienna )
- Martin Schennach ( University of Vienna )
- Gerhard Thür ( University of Graz )
- Gunter Wesener ( University of Graz )
- Ewald Wiederin ( University of Vienna )
- Thomas Winkelbauer ( University of Vienna and Institute for Austrian Historical Research )
- Anita Ziegerhofer ( University of Graz )
Content and frequency of publication
The BRGÖ appear twice a year; As a rule, one of the two volumes contains the presentations of a conference organized by the KRGÖ in the previous year or is otherwise dedicated to a special topic, the second contains mixed contributions and, as a conclusion, an activity report of the KRGÖ on the past year. The BRGÖ is thus an organ of the KRGÖ, but is also open to publication by all other legal historians or anyone else interested in legal history.
The BRGÖ make contributions to Austrian legal history from the Middle Ages to the present. All areas of legal history (constitutional, private law, criminal law history) as well as related areas ( comparative law , legal dogmatics , sociology , political science , etc.) are covered. The term “ Austria ” in the title does not mean a restriction to the territory of today's republic, but should be understood broadly; Contributions to the history of the monarchy and its successor states as well as the integration of Austria into larger units belong here.
The online version appears on a paid website of the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Issues older than the current year are freely accessible.
Peer review
Each contribution is subjected to a peer review before publication , in a double-blind process, so that neither the reviewers know the person of the author nor vice versa. All peers together form the international scientific advisory board of the journal. It currently consists of the following people:
- Karolina Adamová ( University of Prague )
- Gary B. Cohen ( University of Minneapolis )
- Heinz Duchhardt ( Leibniz Institute for European History , Mainz )
- Thomas Duve ( Max Planck Institute for European Legal History , Frankfurt am Main )
- Andrzej Dziadzio ( University of Krakow )
- Michael Gehler ( University of Hildesheim )
- Andrzej Gulczyński ( University of Poznan )
- Karl Härter ( Max Planck Institute for European Legal History , Frankfurt am Main )
- Borut Holcman ( University of Maribor )
- Janez Kranic ( University of Ljubljana )
- Klaus Luig ( University of Cologne )
- Heiner Lück ( University of Halle )
- Barna Mezey ( University of Budapest )
- Ulrike Müßig ( University of Passau )
- Jana Osterkamp ( Collegium Carolinum , Munich )
- Hans Schlosser ( University of Augsburg )
- Clausdieter Schott ( University of Zurich )
- Wolfgang Sellert ( University of Göttingen )
- Jaromír diving ( University of Brno )
- Christopher Thornhill ( University of Glasgow )
- Robert Christian van Ooyen ( Federal University for Public Administration , Lübeck )
- Alain Wijffels ( University of Leiden )