mixed legal systems – kjell å. modéer 397 1142 Duve, Thomas 2013. he range of articlesin this volume accomplishes three tasks. TFirst of all, it will observe the history of Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm, now a 400-year old legal institution with its deep roots in the early modern period of European legal history. The Olin Foundation for Legal History has close connections with the Svea Court of Appeal through its founder, Court of Appeal Justice Gustav Olin (1872– 1955). Secondly, this volume will demonstrate the necessity to revise the early history of the Court of Appeal by returning to the unwritten sources and original artifacts. This volume is genuinely based on first-hand legal history research, and offers new interpretations of the judicial culture in the emerging early modern Swedish Empire. Thirdly, this book constitutes a contribution to the increasingly impressive research within comparative European legal history – a field illustrated by the articles in this volume. The intellectual landscape of the contemporary Swedish lawyers and judiciaries has been reinterpreted and reconstructed over recent years. The concepts of legal culture and deep structures of law in the memberstates of the EU have been of increasingly importance in the construction of contemporary European law. The post-WW II research in legal history concentrated on the reception of the ius commune in the European nation-states. The foundation of the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main in 1964 marked the importance of research on this form of Roman law reception into the core of continental European countries.1142 This great project of the Institute’s first director, Helmut Coing, and others marginCentre – Periphery in the Legal Mapping of Early Modern Europe Introduction
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjYyNDk=