Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods

In diesem Band werden verschiedene Konzepte der juristischen Argumentation vorgestellt, wobei Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der Rechtsanwendungspraxis in den jeweiligen Rechtsordnungen veranschaulicht und ihr Einfluss auf Bestrebungen zur Verheinheitlichung des europäischen Rechts hervorgehoben werden.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 Germany

II: Legal argumentation in the Scandinavian and Germanic legal families
Ingvill 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 consequences

III: International influences
Rainer Grote: Internationalisation of the German legal method – Ingvill Helland/Sören Koch: International influences in Norwegian legal argumentation

IV: Theory in practice
Thomas Thiede: Theory in practice – Lessons from Norway – Kai Krüger: Implied terms or default guidelines – a Nordic contract law swamp area

V: Future developments
Thomas Henninger: Legal Culture and Common Principles of European Legal Methods