his volumegrewout of a symposium held at the Lund University law faculty, 16–17 November 2017. For me as the chairperson of the Olin Foundation for Legal History it is a great pleasure to thank all the contributors to this volume for their work on an important theme in legal history. As Kjell Å. Modéer remarks in his essay on the evolution of legal history, the Olin Foundation was founded in 1947 by the judge Gustav Olin and his wife Carin. It was a time when legal history helped jurists all over post-war Europe to uphold tradition and use it to shape the future. One need only think of the European Convention on Human Rights to see its effect. The purpose of the Olin Foundation was to further Swedish research in legal history. Central to its aims is the funding of symposia and resultant anthologies such as the volume you have in your hands, contributing to the wider interdisciplinary discourse about legal history. The aim of this volume is to reflect on the relation between past and present, and the impact it will have for jurists in future. The tenor of our deliberations is perhaps best understood visually, in the very image of fruitful academic exchange. It takes us back to the Enlightenment, an especially important period for temporal and spatial reflection. The young people in the picture are happily hunting butterflies. They are doing it for fun, but it is also part of their academic research, for they are T legal history•johan hirschfeldt 10 foreword
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