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law, time, and place: a lund perspective on legal history 25 A whole generation of Swedish jurists benefited from the renewed freedom of travel after the war. Among them were two PhD students from Lund and future professors of legal history, Sten Gagnér and PerEdvin Wallén. Both went to Rome to study in the Vatican Apostolic Archives. They kept up the traditions of the Historical School embodied by the first professor of legal history at Lund, Carl Johan Schlyter, in the nineteenth century, and in their theses concentrated on topics taken from the mediaeval period. Gerhard Hafström, who succeeded Ivar Sjögren as professor of legal history in 1955, also wrote his thesis on an early mediaeval topic.9 Hafström started his career in Stockholm. He was a student of Sven Tunberg, professor of history at Stockholm University, and his methodological position was close to that of Henrik Munktell’s nationalist school. The representatives of Swedish legal history in this first post-war generation continued in the tradition known from the early twentieth century, and that against the background of increasingly dominating legal modernity with legal realists and black-letter jurists— positivists of a kind typical of Sweden’s welfare state.10 The paradigmatic turn came in 1968 against a background of student protest. It was the year I first attended the Deutschen Rechtshistorikertagen, theGerman legal historians’ biannual meeting, that time in Münster. The Swedish legal historian Sten Gagnér, by that time professor in Munich, strongly recommended the younger generation to go. ‘You will be included in a family,’ he told us, and he was absolutely right, for the meetings offered a warm welcome and a substantial as well as intellectual generosity. But equally it was a revolutionary time for young legal historians. Two of the honorary doctors the Lund faculty honoured in 2019, Bernhard Diestelkamp and Lawrence Friedman—each from a very different scholarly environment—started their careers in the 1960s. In Germany, it was a time of revival for the Germanist legal history with help of a new post-war generation of legal scholars with no connection to the 9 Gerhard Hafström, Ledung och marklandsindelning (Uppsala: Almqvist &Wiksells, 1949). 10 Kjell Å. Modéer, Juristernas nära förflutna: Rättskulturer i förändring (Stockholm: Santérus förlag, 2009), 304 ff. 11 http://reichshofratsakten.de/?page_id=229

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