professorspolitik och samhällsförändring Reuterskiöld’s theses had idealistic elements; the law stood for something greater and higher than decided by most of the elected assembly, a stance that had a particular emphasis after 1917 when power shifted from the King to the Riksdag. Much was to change in Swedish legal courses in administrative law withReuterskiöld. Although the outer frames were certainly not affected, the subjects for much of the 20th century remained the same as had been stipulated in Degrees Regulations of 1904: legal encyclopaedia, Roman law, legal history, economics, constitutional law, including public international law, finance law, private law with law of obligations, private law with family law and property law, private international law, special private law (abolished in 1935), criminal law, administrative law and law of procedure. No, Reuterskiöld’s contribution concerned the substance of the course. He energetically upheld the interest of administrative law, emphasising the importance of students learning about systematics over their capacity to tick off the statutory provisions. He spoke of a ‘general part’, which should be studied separately from the multitude of regulations in special administrative law. A course syllabus was prescribed in 1909, which was replaced by a seven-page version in 1918, crammed with defined assignments, course literature, references to law report series, etc. that reflected two tendencies: first, the rapid change of Swedish society, including the growth of legislation, and second, the ambition to elaborate on and systematise in a scientific way the general part of administrative law. Reuterskiöld continued the continuous lecture activities pursued by Blomberg. The academic teacher, Reuterskiöld, dealt with both general and special issues, both legislation and precedents, both Swedish and foreign doctrines. He was able to test out his ideas during his lectures, subsequently transforming them into legal writings. Here he was responsible for an impressively extensive production. Reuterskiöld became internationally established early on, relaying knowledge to and from Swedish legal science. He often emphasised the dependence of Swedish administrative law onGerman doctrine. He resorted to the typical Swedish method of dovetailing foreign concepts with estab276
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