part v • comparative legal history • kjell å modéer dialectic relations of twentieth-century legal modernity. The paradigmatic conflicts of totalitarian states versus democracies, legislation versus law, positivism versus natural law, were part of the cognitive legal structures of comparative law in the twentieth century. All this is exemplified by the German-born American comparatist Max Rheinstein. In post-war comparative research, Rheinstein played an important and formative role. He belonged to the generation of German law émigrés who after Hitler’s takeover in 1933 fled their homeland, and made new careers in a very different transatlantic legal culture, and with it new identities. Rheinstein’s papers are held in the special collections of the Joseph Regenstein Library at Chicago University: his voluminous correspondence with extensive networks all over the world, his contributions to comparative law in over forty years as law professor at Chicago, amounting to 102 boxes of material – a fascinating and important archive for the study of the legal history of knowledge.4 Rheinstein’s life and work can also be studied in several published biographical articles and works.5 From the later nineteenth century until 1933, jurists from the Nordic countries frequently visited Germany to keep up to date with modern legal science. In the post-war period, however, they instead turned to Anglo-American law schools. In Norway this paradigmatic change has been calledvestvendingen– theWesternTurn.6 Several Nordic jurists went 4 University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, Finding Aids, Guide to the Max Rheinstein Papers 1869–1977 (2006), www.lib.uchicago.edu. 5 Marcus Lutter, Ernst C. Stiefe &Michael Hoeflich, Der Einfluss deutscher Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland(Tübingen: Mohr, 1993), 333–41; Konrad Duden, ‘Max Rheinstein:Leben und Werk’, in Ernst von Caemmerer, Soia Mentschikoff & Konrad Zweigert (eds.), Ius Privatum Gentium: Festschrift für Max Rheinstein, i: Rechtsmethodik und Internationales Recht (Tübingen:Mohr, 1969), 1 ff.;Nadine Rinck, Max Rheinstein: Leben undWerk (Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft, 262; Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2011); Ulrich Drobnig, ‘Max Rheinstein’, in Stefan Grundmann, Michel Kloepfer, Christoph G. Paulus et al. (eds.), Festschrift 200 Jahre Juristische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin(Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010), 627–54; Reimer von Borries, ‘Einleitung des Herausgebers’, in Max Rheinstein & Reimer von Borries, Einführung in die Rechtsvergleichung (2nd edn, Munich: 1987), 1 ff.; Alisdair D. J. MacPherson, T. B. Smith &Max Rheinstein, ‘Letters from America’, Edinburgh Law Review20/1 (2016), 42–65. 6 Fredrik W. Thue & Kim G. Helsvig, Universitetet i Oslo 1811–2011, v: 1945–1975: Den store transformasjonen(Oslo: Unipub, 2011), 180 ff.; Kjell Å. Modéer, ‘Go West Young Man! Om 256
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjYyNDk=