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Jan Hövermann

Recht und Elektrizität

Der juristische Sachbegriff und das Wesen der Elektrizität 1887 bis 1938
[Law and Electricity. The Legal Concept of the Thing and the Nature of Electricity from 1887 to 1938.]
2018. XVI, 361 pages.
Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (BtrRG) 94
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-160430-0
Published in German.
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Summary
Electrification created pressing legal challenges both in civil and criminal law at the turn of the 20th century. Taking the example of electricity, Jan Hövermann analyses how lawyers transpose scientific knowledge into a legal context and determine the legal system's degree of autonomy from other disciplines.

Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (BtrRG)