Spuren und Linien rechtswissenschaftlicher Arbeitsweise

Is there continuity in legal scientific methods of German jurisprudence in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries? Five historically vertical perspectives on the central review organ of jurisprudence and on law-analytical follow-up publications (KritV) provide fruitful insights into this. The phases covered are the German/North German Confederation, the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, the National Socialist 'Third Reich' and finally the Federal Republic. In a summarising overview of the five analyses, a relationship of ambivalence emerges between the antipodes of closeness to power and distance from power, in which science and its representatives are not always driving forces but sometimes driven.