Dear reader,
Marju Luts-Sootak , Merike Ristikivi
This issue of Juridica International is mostly dedicated to legal journalism as a singular cultural phenomenon. Journalism as a whole can be treated as a mirror or seismograph of cultural and social processes. Legal journalism mirrors the day-to- day of legal culture and records its motions. Historically legal periodicals can be treated as the memory of legal culture. Legal periodicals carry a special role within the media of law and jurisprudence (legal acts, court judgments, scientific mono- graphs, textbooks, etc.). Formally, periodicals are the most dynamic media of law. In essence, they can be called the medial crossing-point (M. Stolleis) where legal science, judicial and administrative practice, legal politics and also general politics meet. In short: any given day of a particular legal culture.
Several articles in this issue were prepared on the basis of the presentations at the conference “Law Journals: National, Regional, International”, held in Tartu on 30 November and 1 December 2009. In part, the conference was connected with a significant anniversary for Estonian legal science—the year 2009 marked 100 years of Estonian-language legal journalism. In its purpose, however, the conference was international, focusing on the identity-related problems of legal journalism in the context of different but near national legal cultures.
The authors of the articles analysing legal periodicals come mostly from the coun- tries bordering the Baltic Sea. The political history of the countries of the Baltic Sea region in the 19th and 20th centuries was so diverse that one cannot but ask what the role of law was in processes such as the hegemonialism of great powers and the territorial and national pursuit for autonomy in its contrast, nation building, development of the legal order of national states and also of national legal language, development of the interpretational thrust of the new legislation, implementation of the totalitarian state goals, rule-of-law transformation of post-Soviet legal orders, etc.
Thus, the articles in this issue allow for a comparison of the relatively more stable legal cultures of Scandinavia with the legal cultures of the eastern and southern shores of the Baltic Sea, which have had to survive major, not always political, upheavals over the past few centuries. That period also coincides with the period of evolution and etablation of special journalism. Legal periodicals might be that useful litmus paper which allows the researcher to obtain an insight into the internal changes and working mechanisms of legal cultures. It is also important to ask the question whether the fragmentation brought about by globalisation might be con- fronted by the tools of regionalisation, which can be achieved by the shaping of the legal public with the aid of relevant periodicals.
Marju Luts-Sootak , Merike Ristikivi
Die Rolle der juristischen Zeitschriftenliteratur bei der Harmonisierung des Privatrechts in Europa
Christian von Bar
Multiple Modernität in den juristischen Zeitschriften – Rechtstheorie ist super!
Werner Krawietz
Zur Charakteristik führender juristischer Periodika im 19. Jahrhundert in Deutschland
Joachim Rückert
Carl Schmidt und die ersten juristischen Fachzeitschriften in Schweden: Juridiskt Arkif und Juridiska Föreningens Tidskrift ─ Foren für die schwedischen rechtswissenschaftliche Diskurse des 19. Jahrhunderts
Kjell Åke Modéer
Juristische Zeitschriften in Russland im 19. Jahrhundert
Konstantin V. Gnitsevich, Alexey S. Kartsov, Anton D. Rudokvas
Die gesamtnordischen juristischen Zeitschriften
Lars Björne
The Journal Lakimies in Finnish Legal History
Pia Letto-Vanamo
Estonia’s First Law Journal in the Struggle for Law
Marju Luts-Sootak
Die Entwicklung der lettischen Rechtssprache nach der Gründung der Republik Lettland am Beispiel von juristischen Fachzeitschriften
Sanita Osipova
Belgian Legal Journals between ‘Pragmatic Laziness’ and Political Accommodation
Patrick Praet
Über die Geschichte und Bedeutung von Oikeus als einer kritischen Zeitschrift
Päivi Paasto
Mirror of the European Legal Traditions: Latin Terminology in Estonian Law Journals Õigus and Juridica
Merike Ristikivi
Positivism as a Concept of Legal Historians
Hans-Peter Haferkamp
Judicial Independence and/or(?) Efficient Judicial Administration
Jaan Ginter
The Law Aids the Vigilant, Not the Negligent: The Obligation to Use Primary Legal Remedies under Estonian State Liability Law
Ene Andresen
Basic Structures of the Draft General Part of the Environmental Code Act
Hannes Veinla
Environmental Exploitation Plan as Administrative Form of Action
Ivo Pilving
Amendments to Procurement Contracts: Estonian Law in the Light of the Pressetext Ruling
Mari Ann Simovart
Regulation of Proprietary Relations between Spouses in the New Family Law Act: Toward Better Regulation by Means of Private Autonomy?
Liis Hallik
Regulation of Strict Liability in the CFR and the Estonian Law of Obligations Act
Janno Lahe
Expert’s Liability to a Third Person at the Point of Intersection of the Law of Contract and the Law of Delict
Urmas Volens
Systematics of Shareholder Remediest ─ Origins and Developments
Margit Vutt
Eingreifen oder nicht eingreifen, das ist hier die Frage. Die Problematik der Bestimmung und des Anwendungsbereichs der Eingriffsnormen im internationalen Privatrecht
Ragne Piir
Economic Crisis and the Effectiveness of Insolvency Regulation
Priit Manavald
The Over-Indebtedness Regulatory System in the Light of the Changing Economic Landscape
Signe Viimsalu
The Historical Experience of Estonia with the Plurality of Penal Law Acts
Marin Sedman
Intentional Homicides in Estonia: The Short-term and Long-term Trends
Jüri Saar
Division of a Company as Means of Corporate Rescue? On Criminal Liability in the Context of Company Division
Marko Kairjak, Ramon Rask
An Individual’s Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel versus the Independence of Counsel: What Can the Estonian Courts Do in Case of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in Criminal Proceedings?
Anneli Soo
