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| Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis | |
|---|---|
| Title | Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis |
| Discipline | Legal history |
| Language | Dutch, English, French, German |
| Abbreviation | Tijdschr. Rechtsgesch. |
| Publisher | Kluwer? / Stichting voor Rechtsgeschiedenis |
| Country | Netherlands |
| History | 1918–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Issn | 0040-7585 |
Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis is a multilingual scholarly journal dedicated to the study of legal history with a European and global perspective, founded in the early twentieth century and published in the Netherlands, engaging with comparative, medieval, Roman, and modern legal traditions. The journal has addressed topics connected to the legal institutions of Rome, the medieval city of Ghent, the Dutch Republic, and the modern states of Belgium and Germany, while featuring research related to judges, codification, and legal scholars across Europe and beyond.
Founded in 1918, the journal emerged amid intellectual networks that included figures associated with Leiden University, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, Ghent University, and scholars influenced by the legacies of Theodoor Giskes, Hugo Grotius, Cornelis van Vollenhoven, Julius Caesar, and the comparative work of Savigny and Montesquieu. Early editorial boards reflected connections to institutions such as the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Universiteit Leiden, and the Peace Palace's legal scholars, while contributors engaged with legal codifications like the Napoleonic Code, the Corpus Juris Civilis, and developments following the Treaty of Versailles and the formation of the League of Nations. During the interwar period and after World War II, debates in the journal touched on jurisprudential controversies involving figures associated with Hugo Grotius's reception, the influence of Frederick II of Prussia on legal administration, and the comparative jurisprudence that connected to the German Historical School and scholars at Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Göttingen.
The journal publishes articles on Roman law, medieval law, early modern legal institutions, and colonial legal orders, placing research in dialogue with archives and collections such as the National Archives (Netherlands), the Royal Library of Belgium, the Vatican Apostolic Archive, and the manuscript holdings of Oxford University's Bodleian Library and Cambridge University Library. Typical contributions examine case law and statutes from jurisdictions including the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Spanish Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and municipal ordinances from Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Nuremberg. Thematic issues have explored subjects connected to prominent figures and texts such as Justinian I, Isidore of Seville, Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Hugo Grotius, and Samuel von Pufendorf, as well as comparative studies involving the Magna Carta, the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, and the Code of Justinian.
Published on a regular basis by Dutch and international publishers and supported by scholarly societies like the Royal Netherlands Historical Society and the International Association of Legal History, the journal has been edited by scholars affiliated with Leiden University, Utrecht University, University of Groningen, Radboud University Nijmegen, and international centers such as Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Università degli Studi di Milano, and Harvard Law School. Editorial policies have emphasized peer review drawing on reviewers from institutions including Columbia University, University of Chicago, Yale University, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge, while special issues have been guest-edited by researchers connected to Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Sciences Po, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Contributors have included prominent historians and jurists from across Europe and beyond, such as scholars aligned with Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Paul Vinogradoff, Heinrich Brunner, William Stubbs, S. F. C. Milsom, Pieter Geyl, H. F. Jolowicz, R. C. van Caenegem, Lutz Raphaël, Mansel Blackford, Neil MacCormick, Bernard Lewis, J. H. W. Verzijl, Peter Stein, Gustav Radbruch, Max Weber, and contributors who have written major articles on sources like the Glossators, the Commentators (law), and documents from the Hanseatic League. Landmark essays addressed the reception of Roman law in Flanders, the codification projects of Napoleon Bonaparte, the legal pluralism of the Dutch East Indies, and documentary analyses related to the Treaty of Münster and the Peace of Westphalia.
The journal has influenced debates in comparative legal history and has been cited in works produced at research centers such as the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and national academies including the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the British Academy. Reviews and citations have appeared in monographs published by presses associated with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Brill, and Springer, and the journal's scholarship has been discussed at conferences organized by the International Association of Legal History, the European Society for Legal History, and symposia at The Hague Academy of International Law and Villa I Tatti.
Indexed in bibliographic services and databases maintained by organizations including WorldCat, Scopus, Web of Science, JSTOR, and national catalogues such as the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the journal is available in university libraries like Leiden University Library, Utrecht University Library, British Library, and research libraries at Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley. Digital access and back runs are held in repositories connected to HathiTrust, Google Books archival listings, and the holdings of major legal history centers including the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
Category:Legal history journals Category:Dutch journals