EDITORIAL
Welcome to the forum historiae iuris!
The
fundamental transformation of information and communication
technologies has also opened up a wealth of new opportunities and
possibilities for legal history research and teaching: sources and
literature are now accessible in a variety and ease that was
unimaginable just a few years ago, and the range of digitally available
content is expanding almost daily. At the same time, new forms of
communication have made our world smaller. Legal history, like many
other discourses, has become more globalized.
This
is one of the reasons why legal history debates and discourses are
increasingly shaped by international perspectives. This has been
accompanied by the
continuous expansion of the fields of legal history research and, to
some extent, of legal history teaching. Taken together, these
developments have given the history of law as
an academic discipline a new dynamism in research and teaching, the
full impact of which is not yet fully foreseeable. However, the World
Wide Web has become a central area for the exchange of legal history
research. Even in the teaching of legal history, the possibilities of
new technologies seem to be gradually being used more and more. The
ongoing developments in digital humanities and, more recently, in
artificial intelligence – and more specifically Large Language Models –
are also likely to have an impact.
These phenomena will be addressed in the forum historiae iuris (FHI). The journal is open to all topics, contents and perspectives of legal history research and teaching. The forum historiae iuris sees itself as a (market)place for the presentation and discussion of legal-historical
topics and theses, whether in the form of articles and miscellanies, or
reports and reviews. At the same time, the FHI should also serve as an information platform for all those interested in legal-historical discourse and events in this context.
These goals determine the work of the Editorial Board and the Editorial Team. We look forward to your interest in our journal forum historiae iuris!