Josef Kohler was one of the most exceptional scholars of jurisprudence in the German Empire. While his achievements in the field of intellectual property law, competition law, and the protection of personality rights are widely discussed, hardly any noteworthy studies of his work on civil law, procedural law, bankruptcy law, legal philosophy, or legal anthropology have been available until today. This book focuses on these unknown areas of his work and attempts, on this basis, to redefine Kohler's significance in the academic system of the German Empire, also using previously unknown sources.
Josef Kohler was one of the most exceptional scholars of jurisprudence in the German Empire. While his achievements in the field of intellectual property law, competition law, and the protection of personality rights are widely discussed, hardly any noteworthy studies of his work on civil law, procedural law, bankruptcy law, legal philosophy, or legal anthropology have been available until today. This book focuses on these unknown areas of his work and attempts, on this basis, to redefine Kohler's significance in the academic system of the German Empire, also using previously unknown sources.
Table of contents:
Eva Inés Obergfell/Louis Pahlow: Das Recht als Instrument des Fortschritts. Eine Einführung -
Hans-Christof Kraus: Josef Kohler - eine Gelehrtengestalt des Wilhelminismus -
Diethelm Klippel: Die Rechtsphilosophie Josef Kohlers. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Rechtsphilosophie um 1900 -
Hans-Peter Haferkamp: Kohlers Privatrechtskonzept -
Eva Inés Obergfell: Josef Kohler als Pionier des Immaterialgüterrechts -
Peter Collin: Der Prozess im Dienste eines »höheren materiellen Rechts«. Josef Kohler und das Zivilverfahrensrecht -
Margrit Seckelmann: Vom »alten« zum »neuen« Völkerrecht. Josef Kohlers völkerrechtliche Schriften zwischen Frieden und Krieg -
Gabriele Metzler: Kolonialismus als Ressource für die Rechtswissenschaft. Josef Kohlers rechtsethnologische Forschungen -
Louis Pahlow: Josef Kohler und die Verleger. Die Briefe von Walther Rothschild und der wissenschaftliche Publikationsmarkt im Kaiserreich
