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scandinavian law terms

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Scandinavian Studies in Law published its first volume fifty years ago, in 1957. The founder of the publication and its general editor of the first 24 volumes, until 1980, was Professor Folke Schmidt of Stockholm University, primarily known as a pioneer in labour law and characterized by his strong international orientation and wide interests within the field of jurisprudence. Fifty years ago, little was published on Scandinavian law in non-Nordic languages and the traditionally strong scholarly ties between Scandinavian and German legal science, having had their peak in the decades around 1900, had largely been broken since the 1930:s. In the 1950:s, Folke Schmidt was able to understand, more clearly and earlier than most others, that there was a need to communicate Scandinavian law and legal scholarship, including its values, development and jurisprudential thinking, to the outside world and that English had become the modern language of universal communication.1 Folke Schmidt was succeeded as editor by Anders Victorin, professor of private law with labour and housing law as specialities and wide interests within comparative law. Anders Victorin, editor 1980 - 1993, was a disciple and close collaborator of Folke Schmidt all the way from student years. Scandinavian Studies in Law has always been published by the Stockholm Institute of Scandinavian Law, attached to and supported by the Law Faculty of Stockholm University. The Faculty was founded in 1907 and the starting up of Scandinavian Studies in Law in 1957 was an important initiative to manifest the fiftieth anniversary of the Faculty. Likewise, the fiftieth anniversary of Scandinavian Studies in Law in 2007 coincides with the Centennial Jubilee of the Stockholm Law Faculty. Over the years Scandinavian Studies in Law has been able to establish itself as a leading publication in its field, represented in very many law libraries the world over. Over fifty volumes have been published, this Jubilee Volume being No 50. Until 1993, Scandinavian Studies in Law was published as a yearbook comprising selected articles in different areas of law. From volume 38, onwards, the material in the series is arranged according to topic. The aggregated collection of articles published during these fifty years in Scandinavian Studies in Law constitutes the largest bank of information available in English on Scandinavian Law and Scandinavian legal theory, in all over 650 articles. They are accessible on our website, the first 37 volumes in full text.2