Today the representatives of the disciplines in the law faculties interacts in quite a different and positive way. The perspectives are as many as the legal problems. Today time as well as space play an important role within legal scholarship. Comparative Legal Historyisanincreasingly growing discipline not only in Europe but also globally. Programmatic articles by Thomas Duve elaborate on this theme.36 In this article I have emphasized that contemporary legal scholarship indicates a turn to romanticism, and to interpretation and analysis of society with help from an historical and cultural argumentation. In Sweden, the academic legal discourses since the early 20th century have been dedicated to valid law, to legal realism, and legal positivism. Throughout the centuries, legal history has had a close relation to legal scholarship, but most of the time in dynamic change. The modernity of the 20th century, however, turned more to the future than to the past. However, we can observe a “turn to history” when legal history and positive legal scholarship are merging. During the late modernity (or the second modernity), methodologically histories, traditions and cultures have merged with legal theory and legal scholarship. My hypothesis in this article has been that we are experiencing such a merger today, in theory as well as in practice. In my opinion we can delete the question-mark regarding the turn to history in legal scholarship. Legal history today is an inalienable part of legal scholarship. 135 kjell å modéer 36 Thomas Duve, “What is global legal history?”, Comparative Legal History 2020; Thomas Duve “Legal History as a History of the Translation of Knowledge of Normativity”, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series 2022.
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