Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods

Ingvill Helland (Herausgegeben von) Born 1977; Postdoc at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen.Sören Koch (Herausgegeben von) Born 1975; Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen.

• I: Translation strategies and historical background Ingrid Simonnæs: Legal comparison as a prerequisite to legal translation. The inherent interrelatedness between legal comparison and legal translation - Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde: The legal cultural dependency of the Norwegian legal method and its future - Dag Michalsen: Structural-historical features in 'the Norwegian legal method' - Hans-Peter Haferkamp: Historical Conditions for the Contemporary Understanding of Legal Method in GermanyII: Legal argumentation in the Scandinavian and Germanic legal familiesIngvill Helland/Sören Koch: Introduction to Norwegian legal method - Sten Schaumburg-Müller: On Danish legal method - Johan Boucht: Introduction to Finnish and Swedish legal method - Ingvill Helland: Introduction to German legal method - Stephan Hinghofer-Szalkay: Twins or estranged cousins? Legal Methodology in Austria vis-à-vis Germany - Rafael Haecki: An introduction to the application of law in Switzerland - Ingvill Helland/Sören Koch: Norwegian and German legal methods compared: Similarities and differences, their reasons and consequencesIII: International influencesRainer Grote: Internationalisation of the German legal method - Ingvill Helland/Sören Koch: International influences in Norwegian legal argumentationIV: Theory in practiceThomas Thiede: Theory in practice - Lessons from Norway - Kai Krüger: Implied terms or default guidelines - a Nordic contract law swamp areaV: Future developmentsThomas Henninger: Legal Culture and Common Principles of European Legal Methods