search.1 This prompts me to reflect on the contemporary conditions of law faculties in today’s Europe.2 There is no law faculty that has not experienced the increasing tensions between being a faculty for legal education with regional and national obligations, and being expected to strive for excellence in international research. The duty to educate lawyers is the prime task of any law faculty, and until recently this dictated almost all faculty responsibilities, while research was mostly associated with national obligations, serving national legal systems, in what may be called the operational character of legal science. Recent decades have seen a twofold internationalization of legal science, both legal systems themselves and research funding. The authorities expect law faculties to behave as international research actors, but government funding is for the most part still linked to education, and obviously cannot increase the total research capacity needed if political he faculty of lawat the University of Lund is one of the leading European law faculties, with much innovative teaching and re- T part vii • legal history and legal science • dag michalsen 1 This essay is an extended version of a lecture held at the Faculty of Law at the University of Lund on the occasion of being awarded an honorary doctorate in June 2017. University of Lund is member of the important LERU-network of leading European universities, www.leru.org. 2 Many of the following reflections were prompted by my work as dean of the faculty of law in Oslo (2016–2020). 328 Constitutions and codifications, 1667–2017: A legal historian’s reflection 20. Dag Michalsen
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