How to Teach European Comparative Legal History Workshop Faculty of Law Lund University 19-20 August 2009

The internationalization and globalization of the law has been one of the greatest challenges to the modern nation state. The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 emphasized the diversities of the member states in the EU regarding language, history and culture. In late modern jurisprudence the disciplines legal history and comparative law, representing the perspectives of time and space within the law, have increasingly interacted towards a merge. In Europe as well as in the U.S. the field of comparative l