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Rechtshistorische Forschung zur österreichischen Verfassungsgeschichte im Zeitraum von 2000 bis 2016
Fields of Research on Austrian Constitutional History between 2000 and 2016

Author(s): Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowitz
Subject(s): History of Law, Constitutional Law, Political history, Government/Political systems
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: research on legal history; Austrian legal history; constitutional history;

Summary/Abstract: The article shows the variety of topics covered in the Austrian legal history between 2000 and 2016. After a short overview on the Austrian research facilities and professional journals on legal history, the article concentrates on the main research topics in the field of constitutional history. The publications and conferences of the last fifteen years address a wide range of research questions: among others projects on the life and work of Hans Kelsen, studies on the interwar Austrian legal system and the different movements of Austrian legal doctrine and moreover general aspects of parliamentary history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the first Austrian republic.

  • Issue Year: 11/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 95-126
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: German