professorspolitik och samhällsförändring In line with awell-established Swedish method, he married foreign references with Swedish legal traditions. According to Rabenius, there must be an investigation into the natural character of the country, the nature of its people and their spiritual, material and political development in order to be able to understand a country’s administrative law. The State was a means for people ‘to realise their natural selves’ and to incorporate this into the ‘true manifestation of the organism of the state’. Not only are echoes of the historical school found in Rabenius’ reasoning, but also from the many idealistic tendencies of the late 19th century. In the same period as Rabenius made his historical references, a professorship in Roman law, legal encyclopaedia and legal history was established in 1866. This coincided with the state powers generally allocating more resources for academic legal education. The number of professorial posts had increased to four by 1843/44. Then, in just over thirty years up until 1877, the number of professor’s chairs increased to seven, while the number of legal students had multiplied. However, the identity of ‘administrative law’ was still unclear. Records from the faculties provide a fragmented picture of the law course at Uppsala and above all in Lund. Despite continuity in the subject descriptions, there was disharmony between the titles of the professorships, what was actually taught and what subjects then appeared on degree certificates. For example, Herman Ludvig Rydin lectured in ‘local government law’ in Uppsala from 1879 despite this not being included among the prescribed subjects. Temporary arrangements and redeployments were constantly made among the teachers in Lund. As a professor of administrative law, Gustaf Hamilton complained that he had no time for scientific renewal and that the teaching did not provide an overall picture of the subject. Documents show how the lectures worked through a number of rules, one after the other, fields that had largely existed since the 1840s: constitutional law and public international law, economics, law of public order and policy administration, business law, finance law (revenue law), church law and military law. 270
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