Legal history (journal)

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Legal history, Rg
Journal of the Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History
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description Legal journal
publishing company Vittorio Klostermann publisher
First edition 2002
Frequency of publication yearly
editor Thomas Duve
Web link rg-rechtsgeschichte.de
ISSN (print) 1619-4993
ISSN (online) 2195-9617

Legal History ( Rg ) is the journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main . The publisher is the Frankfurt legal historian Thomas Duve . The magazine is published once a year in print and online. The printed edition has a volume of approx. 500 pages and costs 49 euros.

history

From 2002 to 2012, Die Rechtsgeschichte replaced the magazine Ius Commune founded by Helmut Coing , published in 1967 and discontinued in 2001, twice a year as a follow-up publication . From 2012 the journal will appear as an annual volume under the title Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History . Like its predecessor, it is published by the Frankfurt publisher Vittorio Klostermann . The publication, originally conceived as the in-house journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, has developed over time into an internationally respected specialist journal for research on legal history.

Content

The journal contains articles by domestic and foreign scholars from various disciplines on German and European legal history, with civil , criminal , public and canonical topics being represented. Some contributions also point beyond the boundaries of the subject area and touch e.g. B. questions of legal philosophy or art history . In addition to articles in German, most editions also contain articles in foreign languages, e.g. B. in English , Spanish and Italian . With its international, interdisciplinary and multilingual conception, it takes account of the diversity of global legal and research cultures.

The contents of the editions are divided into the categories “Research” with original works on various topics, “Focus” with contributions on a thematic focus, “Forum” or, depending on the conception of the volume, in the “Debate” with brief statements on the editors' comments Topics and “criticism” with academic reviews of current legal-historical production. Not all categories have to be represented in every issue. Some editions have a thematic focus, e.g. B. the Middle Ages. On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Frankfurt legal historian Michael Stolleis, issue 19 (2011) was devoted entirely to the history of public law and structured the essays according to the first letters of the authors' last names. The magazine contains - quite unusual for a legal journal - partly pictures.

Open Access

As of 2012, the journal will appear immediately in print and online in open access. The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History is making issues 1 to 19 available free of charge to all interested parties on its website in PDF format after a period of 3 years .

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