Hans-Peter Haferkamp – författare

This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments. The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was a unified form of socialist legal historiography, and if so, what can be said of its common features. The individual chapters of this volume concentrate on the regimes that situate between the Russian, and later Soviet, legal culture and the area covered by the German Civil Code. Hence, the geographical focus of the book is on East Germany, Russia, the Baltic states, Poland and Hungary. The approach is transnational, focusing on the interaction and intertwinement of the then hegemonic communist ideology and the ideas of law and justice, as they appeared in the writings of legal historians of the socialist legal orders. Such an angle enables concentration on the dynamics between politics and law as well as identities and legal history. Studying the socialist interpretations of legal history reveals the ways in which the 20th century legal scholars, situated between legal renewal and political guidance gave legitimacy to, struggled to come to terms with, and sketched the future of the socialist legal orders.The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal History, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law and European Studies.The Open Access version of this book, available athttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/socialism-legal-history-ville-erkkil%C3%A4-hans-peter-haferkamp/e/10.4324/9780367814670?context=ubx&refId=2db6d49f-af1c-4b51-9503-9673a131f541, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.”

This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the socialist legal orders, which were backed by dictatorial governments. The volume studies legal historians and legal histories written in Eastern European countries during the socialist era after the Second World War. The book investigates whether there was a unified form of socialist legal historiography, and if so, what can be said of its common features. The individual chapters of this volume concentrate on the regimes that situate between the Russian, and later Soviet, legal culture and the area covered by the German Civil Code. Hence, the geographical focus of the book is on East Germany, Russia, the Baltic states, Poland and Hungary. The approach is transnational, focusing on the interaction and intertwinement of the then hegemonic communist ideology and the ideas of law and justice, as they appeared in the writings of legal historians of the socialist legal orders. Such an angle enables concentration on the dynamics between politics and law as well as identities and legal history. Studying the socialist interpretations of legal history reveals the ways in which the 20th century legal scholars, situated between legal renewal and political guidance gave legitimacy to, struggled to come to terms with, and sketched the future of the socialist legal orders.The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal History, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law and European Studies.The Open Access version of this book, available athttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/socialism-legal-history-ville-erkkil%C3%A4-hans-peter-haferkamp/e/10.4324/9780367814670?context=ubx&refId=2db6d49f-af1c-4b51-9503-9673a131f541, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.”

Der schillernde Begriff "Pandektistik" wird meist in pejorativem Sinn als Beschreibung für eine Rechtswissenschaft verwendet, von der es sich abzugrenzen gilt. Dabei spielt Jherings 1884 vehement einsetzende Kritik an einer nur-logischen, haarspalterischen, weltfremden "Begriffsjurisprudenz" der Pandektistik eine erhebliche Rolle. Wir wissen inzwischen, dass diese Kritik stark überspitzt, teilweise unrichtig war. Die Tagung brachte die beiden bis heute meist getrennt zu diesen Zusammenhängen forschenden Rechtshistorikergruppen, die eher dogmatisch und dogmengeschichtlich auf die Pandektenwissenschaft blickenden "Romanisten" und die eher wissenschaftsgeschichtlich dem gleichen Gegenstand zugewandten "Germanisten" erstmals in einer Tagung gezielt in ein Gespräch über diesen Befund. Die entstandenen Beiträge verstehen sich als Bausteine zu einer neuen Sichtweise auf die Pandektenwissenschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts.

Die DDR ist ebenso 'abgewickelt' wie ihr Rechtssystem. Mit dem Abstand von mehr als einer Generation ist es an der Zeit, die Rechtsgeschichte der DDR und der deutschen Rechtseinheit ohne Anklage und Apologie zu erforschen. Der Band möchte hierzu einen Anstoß geben. Er präsentiert die Vorträge, die auf dem Gedächtnissymposium für den Berliner Rechtshistoriker Rainer Schröder (1947-2016) gehalten wurden. In ihnen werden dogmatische, methodologische, zeit- und wissenschaftshistorische Aspekte des DDR-Rechts mit Rückblicken auf die schwierige Rechtsvereinheitlichung nach 1990 kontrastiert.