ZNR 47 (2025)

Nachrufe

  • Clausdieter Schott (1936–2023), in: ZNR 46 (2024), S. 1–2
  • Bernhard Diestelkamp (1929–2025), in: ZNR 47 (2025), S. 185–186

Beiträge

  • JANA JANIŠOVÁ, Olomouc
    The Minor Provincial Court of the Margraviate of Moravia in the 16th Century (Genesis – Office and Officials – Judicial Agenda), in: ZNR 46 (2024), S. 3­–19

The minor provincial court in Moravia belonged to the key institution of the Estates judiciary. This institution functioned on two basic levels, as an office and as a court. As an office, it handled almost all the business related to the running of the („major“) provincial court. Its clerks were involved in many of the procedural acts of the provincial court, writing manuscripts and taking suits to court. In its own court practice, the minor provincial court dealt with small disputes over small sums. The minor provincial court was exclusively a matter for the knights. Serving in the minor offices represented an important career option for the lower nobility.

  • NIKLAS KIRCHNER, Halle/Saale
    Wirkungen der Ehe im Sächsischen Recht. Entstehungsgeschichte der §§ 1630–1645 des Sächsischen BGB von 1863/65, in: ZNR 46 (2024), S. 20–45

As a core area of marriage law the general effects of marriage cover the rights and duties of spouses among themselves as well as the effects of marriage with regard to third parties. This paper focuses on the development of the general effects of marriage in 19thth Century Saxony especially on the formation of §§ 1630–1645 of the Civil Code for the Kingdom of Saxony (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch für das Königreich Sachsen) of 1863/65, the so-called Saxon Civil Code (Sächsisches BGB). These provisions regulate the rights and duties of husband and wife within the marriage as well as the impact of marriage on legal transactions of the wife with third parties. The analysis of the genesis of these provisions is most notably of importance, because the Saxon Civil Code not simply remained a 19thth Century draft as many others, but it actually entered into force. Thus, its system and its substance served as a role model for the unified Germany’s Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) of 1896/1900.

  • ANDRÉ LEPEJ, Heidelberg/Mannheim
    Das reichspolitische Wirken Fritz van Calkers (1864–1957) zugunsten des Elsass. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Rechtsgeschichte des Elsass, in: ZNR 47 (2025), S. 187–212

The largely forgotten law professor and politician Fritz van Calker was already politically committed to the interests of Alsace during his teaching career at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität in Strasbourg in the late 1890s. As an elected national liberal member of the Reichstag, van Calker took a stand on the political position and future of the Reichsland in several groundbreaking debates between 1912 and 1918, and ultimately campaigned for the autonomy of Alsace-Lorraine. After reconstructing van Calker’s life as well as his political work and providing an overview of the special constitutional status of the Reichslande, the article examines the legal professor’s imperial political statements in favor of Alsace for the first time in detail and in context, using a wide range of source material. The resulting picture of the politically committed “Neuelsässer” Fritz van Calker aims to make a contribution to the legal history of the European territorial entity of Alsace as well as to the history of political parties and German parliamentarism in the early 20th century.

  • WEI XIAO, Wuhan
    Savigny in China und seine Bedeutung in der Ära nach der chinesischen Zivilrechtskodifikation, in: ZNR 47 (2025), S. 213–235

Savigny’s legal thought, especially his historical jurisprudence and the concept of Volksgeist, has undergone a nuanced trajectory in China. Early introductions during the late Qing and Republican eras were limited in scope and depth, often filtered through secondary interpretations. After 1978, with China’s reintegration into global academic discourse, interest in Savigny’s theories resurged, particularly through translations and systematic scholarship. Since the early 21st century, Chinese legal academia has engaged more substantively with his methodology and legal doctrine, especially in the context of codification. The 2021 Chinese Civil Code has rekindled discussions about the relevance of Savigny’s ideas, including the role of personality rights, the relationship between codification and legal tradition, and the development of law as a culturally embedded yet rational system. His emphasis on legal evolution grounded in historical continuity and internal coherence provides a valuable reference for China’s ongoing legal transformation, calling for a synthesis of national tradition with universal principles of legal science.

Forschungsberichte

  • MARKUS HIRTE, Rothenburg ob der Tauber
    Juristische Strafrechtsgeschichte, in: ZNR 46 (2024), S. 97–137
  • HENRI HANNULA – NATHALY MANCILLA-ÓRDENES – HEIKKI PIHLAJAMÄKI – AIRTON RIBEIRO – GUSTAVO ZATELLI, Helsinki/Naples
    Unpacking Early Modern Colonial Law: A Brief Overview of the Literature of the Last Twenty Years, in: ZNR 46 (2024), S. 138–157
  • INGE VAN HULLE, Leuven (Belgium)
    Between Amnesia and Awakening: A Critical Assessment of Colonial Legal Historiography in Belgium, in: ZNR 47 (2025), S. 236–255

Belgium’s colonial past, long marginalized in both public memory and academic research, has recently resurfaced as a pressing societal and scholarly concern. This paper critically discusses significant gaps in Belgian legal-historical scholarship despite the growing international prominence of colonial legal history. It situates the slow development of the field within the broader context of post-World War II Belgian legal history’s Eurocentric orientation and the enduring perception of Belgium as a ‘small’ colonial power. The paper also highlights the limitations of archival accessibility, compounded by deliberate document destruction during the colonial era. While recent initiatives signal progress, substantialareas remain underexplored. These include judicial practices, the legal agency of indigenous actors, land law, gendered dimensions of colonial regulation, and the post-independence legacy of Belgian colonial law. Ultimately, the paper argues that re-centering law within Belgium’s colonial history is crucial not only for historical accuracy but also for understanding the enduring legal and societal structures that connect Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Congo today.

Länderbericht

  • SANITA OSIPOVA, Riga
    Development of the Latvian Legal History since the Restoration of National Independence in 1990/1991, in: ZNR 47 (2025), S. 256–281

Miszelle

  • ROLAND KLEINHENZ, Erfurt
    Neues vom Jahrhundertprojekt. Zur „History of Parliament“ des House of Lords (1660 bis 1715) von Ruth Paley, ZNR 46 (2024), S. 46–59

Diskussion

  • MICHELE LUMINATI, Luzern
    Meistererzählungen und Fragmentierungen in der schweizerischen Rechtsgeschichtsschreibung: Mythen, Fabeln und ein gewisses Unbehagen, in: ZNR 46 (2024), S. 60–96

Swiss legal historiography is characterised by two surprisingly long-lasting master narratives: 1) Eugen Huber’s great narrative on the history of private law (1893), which conveyed the image of a separate Swiss development from the late Middle Ages onwards, far removed from ius commune and learned jurists. After the Second World War and in the 1990s, attempts were made to establish a ’romanist’ counter-narrative. At the same time, Pio Caroni spent years developing his own great narrative, which focuses primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries and emphasises the political and social background of the Swiss Civil Code. While Caroni’s work has remained relatively isolated, in recent years there has been a battle for interpretative control over the mythical figure of Eugen Huber and his great narrative. 2) The master arrative of constitutional history, which is characterised by the liberal ideas of the late 19th century and has found its current version in the exhaustive work by Alfred Kölz (1992–2004). In addition to these two master narratives, fragmentation can also be observed within the Swiss legalhistorical landscape: in addition to the long-standing linguistic and cultural differences, greater thematic fragmentation has also occurred in recent decades, which on the one hand can be interpreted positively as pluralisation, but on the other hand also bears the risk of a final drifting apart.

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