Editors

MARTIN LÖHNIG, Regensburg

Professor of Civil Law, German and European Legal History at the University of Regensburg

Main areas of research:

  • History of private law
  • History of justice
  • History of commercial law
  • Constitutional history
  • Canon law
  • Family and inheritance law

BERND MERTENS, Erlangen

Professor of Civil Law, German and European Legal History at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Main research interests:

  • History of legislation and its methods
  • History of commercial law in the modern era
  • historical comparative law
  • non-codified types of contract

LOUIS PAHLOW, Frankfurt am Main

Professor of Modern Legal History, Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law at Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Main research interests:

  • Legal developments under the influence of economic change processes
  • Development of modern economic and competition law
  • History of corporate law
  • History of the protection of personality rights and intellectual property

MARTIN P. SCHENNACH, Innsbruck

Professor of Legal History at the University of Innsbruck, Institute for Roman Law and Legal History

Main areas of research:

  • history of legislation and codification
  • constitutional history
  • historical implementation of law
  • history of criminal law
  • research on early modern revolts
  • history of science