aims are to be met. We cannot overlook the tension that has become increasingly acute. How are we to balance the conflict of interests between national educational goals on the one side and research goals of a markedly international character on the other? In addition, there is growing uncertainty about what kind of lawyers society will need in years to come in the light of the dramatic new digitization of legal work and the law in general.3 There are many ways of constructing institutional tools to reduce such tensions. One would be to acknowledge the interconnectedness of the international dimension in all legal education, and ask for an increased Europeanization of legal education.4 That would help to bring about a new national understanding for international legal research. Yet it is vital that law faculties maintain their historical responsibility to contribute to national legal systems; without this, international approaches will lose legitimacy at the national level. One may ask whether old law faculties have their advantages, there being a historical certainty to their many choices. Lund’s law faculty has a long history of understanding and balancing these national and international dimensions of law at the university.5 It is tempting to assume it is a privilege to belong to a law faculty with such a significant history, and acknowledgedly so given that its traditions continue to frame identity and expectation. The faculty of Lund is over 350 years old, its great legal scholars – Samuel Pufendorf (1632–1694), David Nehrman-Ehrenstråle ((1696–1769), Carl Johan Schlyter (1795–1888), Karl Olivecrona (1897–1980), and Anna Christensen (1936–2001) – defined and transcended Lund in so many ways, and all now point to theoretical and political dimensions of the law which faculties still debate, all part of the business of achieving the expected excellence in teaching and research in an evolving world. constitutions and codifications, 1667–2017 329 3 The literature is now considerable, but see Edward Rubin (ed.), Legal Education in the Digital Age (Cambridge: CUP, 2014). 4 This is the case with President Macron’s European Universities Initiative of 2019 on, see www.ec.europa.eu, s.v.‘European Universities Initiative’. 5 For Lund and its leading lights, see Kjell Å. Modéer, Det förpliktande minnet: Juridiska fakulteten i Lund 1666–2016(Stockholm: Santérus, 2017).
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