Justitia Scanned: Creating Electronic Editions of Legal History Sources
International Conference at the Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar, October 11- 13, 2002


Conference Proceedings


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General Introductions
Edward Papenfuse, Maryland State Archives Salvaging the nearly lost art of constitution making: documenting the documents	Text (PDF)
Stephanie Davidson, Yale University Curiae and Avalon: a comparison of approaches to digitizing historic collections	Text (PDF)	Presentation (PDF)
Work Explanation and Assistance
Matthias Schneider, University of Kassel Rise of Modern Constitutionalism: project workflow design and website	Text (PDF)	Presentation (PDF)
Rules for editing	Text (PDF)
Rules for indexing	Text (PDF)
Translations
Hedwig Weiland, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany The translation of legal texts ... Conclusions from two translations of the German Basic Law	Text (PDF)
Susan Wright, Court of Justice of the European Communities The translation of legal texts ... From academic comparative law to legal translation in practice	Text (PDF)
Thomas Clark, University of Kassel Guidelines for the English Translation of Edited Constitutional Documents	Text (PDF)
History of Modern Constitutionalism
Horst Dippel, University of Kassel Modern constitutionalism: An introduction to a history in the need of writing	Text (PDF)