law, time, and place: a lund perspective on legal history 35 and also co-editors of the recent research handbook in comparative legal history.45 And since the symposium in November 2017 another Nordic legal historian has been inducted into the Lund legal historians’ hall of fame: in 2019, the professor of comparative legal history at Helsinki University, Heikki Pihlajamäki, received his honorary degree. Pihlajamäki has for decades been instrumental in furthering Nordic legal history. His contributions also range far wider, including an important international handbook in European Legal History, and he has led the way in the current emphasis on comparative legal history.46 Two of Lund’s honorary doctors were unable to join us in person for the 2017 symposium. Both now in their nineties, they nevertheless participated from a distance. Bernhard Diestelkamp sent a paper from Göttingen to be delivered to the symposium, and Lawrence Friedman in Stanford, prevented from travelling by his teaching obligations, gave a video interview, edited for this volume. This brief survey of legal history at the faculty of law at Lund University underscores the importance of its contacts with its honorary doctors and their contributions to legal scholarship as a whole and to the Lund law faculty in particular. We are proud to count them as colleagues and prouder still to count them as friends and mentors, who have not only inspired our research but have been generosity itself with their knowledge and networks. With this volume we celebrate all our honorary doctors, both with their own contributions and with other legal historians’ reflections on their fields of research. Over seventy years have passed since 1947, the starting point of this survey. Since then the temporality of the legal context has changed dramatically. The essentially nationalist project which Ivar Sjögren and Gustav Olin sketched out for the future of Swedish legal history has yet to be realized, and is unlikely to be so in the near future. The contextua45 Olivier Moreteau, Aniceto Masferrer & Kjell Å. Modéer (eds.), Comparative Legal History (Research Handbooks in Comparative Law; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019). 46 Jaakko Husa, Kimmo Nuotio & Heikki Pihlajamäki (eds.), Nordic Law: Between Tradition and Dynamism(Antwerp: Intersentia, 2007); Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus D. Dubber & Mark Godfrey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History (Oxford: OUP, 2018).
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