At the Origins of German Liberalism: the State in the Thought of Robert von Mohl

Paweł Lesiński is a Polish attorney-at-law and researcher at Institute of Legal Sciences of Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Main fields of his academic activity are German law and German legal thought. He was awarded with DAAD Scholarship for a scientific visit at the Faculty of Law of Heidelberg University. He also conducted his research at Bibliothek des Max Planck Instituts für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte and Staatsbilbiothek zu Berlin.

• Robert von Mohl and his era – Introductory concepts for the idea of the state – The idea of the state and its diversity – The legal state in theory and action – The power and representation in the state – The current value of von Mohl’s views in the context of contemporary legal institutions in Poland and Germany