Transfer normativer Ordnungen – Baumaterial für junge Nationalstaaten

Forschungsbericht über ein Südosteuropa-Projekt

Abstract

Since the 17^th century there have been historical reflections on the question as to how and why ancient Roman law in the form of the medieval common law was »received« north of the Alps. In a different tone the spreading of the »colonisation« of Eastern Europe through the city-laws of Lübeck and Magdeburg was discussed during the 19^th century. Modern legal historiography seeks new models and terminologies to explain the transfer of codifications, principles of law, institutions, legal languages or the cultural habitus of »lawyers« in a better and more accurate way. The following essay deals with a project concerning the statebuilding process in south-eastern Europe between around 1850 and 1933 after the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The focus lies on the transfer of normative orders (constitutional law, civil law and penal law) in the newly emerging national states of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania.