law, time, and place: a lund perspective on legal history dark days of the Third Reich. Diestelkamp initiated a huge project on a key judicial institution, the Reichskammergericht or Imperial Chamber Court. His colleague Wolfgang Sellert initiated similarly large parallel project on the Reichshofrat, the Imperial Aulic Council.11 This came at a time when the West German courts were casting about for some deep roots, an identity. In 1969 Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kötz introduced the concept of legal families in their important introduction to comparative law.12 This field expanded rapidly in the post-war period, largely thanks to German émigrés in the UKand US who paved the way for the post-war interchange between European and American legal scholars.13 In theUS, Lawrence M. Friedman was a pioneer of the law and society movement.14 Willard Hurst at Wisconsin had introduced the empirical study of American law and its history, and with the German émigré Max Rheinstein at Chicago as mentor and supervisor he had a hand in introducing the translation of Max Weber’s posthumous workWirtschaft und Gesellschaft (‘Economy and Society’) to an American legal audience. The international transition to alternative methods in legal science left its mark on the law faculty at Lund. Max Rheinstein visited Lund a couple of times as a guest lecturer, and the young professor of civil law, Per Stjernquist, the first professor of the sociology of law at Lund in 1972–1978, found in Hurst’s works an inspiration for his own scholarly work. When in the early 1970s I wrote my thesis on jurisdictions in Sweden’s provinces in the German Empire in the early modern period, I was included in the research group led by Diestelkamp and Sellert.15 Diestelkamp also acted as my PhD opponent. 12 Konrad Zweigert & Hein Kötz, Einführung in die Rechtsvergleichung auf dem Gebiete des Privatrechts (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1969). 13 Kjell Å. Modéer, ‘Abandoning the Nationalist Framework: Comparative Legal History’, inHeikki Pihlajamäki, Markus D. Dubber, andMark Godfrey (eds.),TheOxford Handbook of European Legal History (Oxford:OUP, 2018), 100–114. 14 Interview with Lawrence Friedman in this volume. 15 Kjell Å. Modéer, Gerichtsbarkeiten der schwedischen Krone im deutschen Reichsterritorium: Voraussetzungen und Aufbau 1630–1657 (Rättshistoriskt bibliotek, 24; Stockholm: Nordiska bokhandeln, 1975); id., ‘Laudatio: Bernd (90) und ich (80) in einem gemeinsamen Netzwerk inkludiert’, Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Reichskammergerichtsforschung, 50 (2020), 217 ff. 27
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