part iii • contemporary legal history • mats kumlien Some legal historians – Michael Stolleis is not one of them – are concerned about their own usefulness and their ability to hold people’s attention. Is it that bad? If there is a threat, who is it from? Not from colleagues at the Uppsala law faculty. When the world is like it is, should it really be the legal historian’s job to promote pessimism or division between ‘us and them’? No, keep calm and carry on. Yes, we can! This is not the end of legal history, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it might be the end of a glorious beginning. 186 LEGAL HI STORY Reflecting the past and the present, current perspectives for the future
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