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Generalklauseln wie Treu und Glauben oder die Guten Sitten werden in der gegenwärtigen Privatrechtsdiskussion meist nur unter dem Aspekt ihrer Konkretisierung, d.h. der Ableitung präziserer, unmittelbar anwendbarer Rechtssätze behandelt. Marietta Auer zeigt dagegen, daß man ihrer Funktion nur mit Berücksichtigung der ethischen und historischen Grundlagen der Privatrechtsentwicklung während des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts gerecht werden kann.

The meaning, function and desirable scope of good faith in contractual performance is one of the most pervasive problems of European as well as American contract law. Yet, the discussion seems to be locked into a set of inescapable dilemmas which frequently reappear as a typical, but unsatisfactory part of academic contributions and judicial opinions; namely, the controversies between an individualist ethics of freedom of contract and the opposing altruist value of interpersonal responsibility, between the danger of judicial arbitrariness and the demand for equitable flexibility, and, finally, between the legitimacy of judicial law making and the insistence on judicial restraint. This article attempts to show a pattern behind this structure, consisting of a relatively small set of typical arguments which appear in ordered pairs of diametrical oppositions such as those mentioned above. This suggests that good faith language is much less tailored to context and much more dependent on a preexistent structure of stereotyped arguments than it usually appears in the practice of legal discourse. This insight implies a new assessment of the cogency of argument patterns deployed in theoretical and doctrinal statements on good faith.

Der Band versammelt die für die akademische Gedenkfeier für Michael Stolleis (1941-2021) am 24. Juni 2022 verfassten Vorträge. Sie würdigen die vielfältigen Facetten des Juristen und Historikers, des Wissenschaftlers wie des Hochschullehrers. Einige Aufsätze beleuchten im Anschluss an sein Werk die Wissenschaftsgeschichte des deutschen Völkerrechts oder die Geschichte des Kolonialrechts; andere stellen seine große Bedeutung für europäische Kolleginnen und Kollegen heraus. Doch alle Beiträge durchzieht ein Grundgedanke: dass Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsgeschichten untrennbar zusammengehören, wie es Stolleis in seinem letzten Buch unter dem Titel recht erzählen (2021) meisterhaft vorführte. So halten persönliche Erinnerungen von Freunden und Wegbegleiter das Andenken an den einzigartigen Erzähler vom Recht fest. Auch Michael Stolleis selbst kommt noch einmal in einem wieder abgedruckten Gespräch über Väter, Bildungswege und Zeitgenossenschaft zu Wort.This volume presents the lectures written for the academic memorial service for Michael Stolleis (1941-2021) on June 24, 2022. They pay tribute to the many facets of the jurist and historian, the scientist as well as the university teacher. Tying in with his work, some essays shed light on the academic history of "German international law" or the history of colonial law; others highlight his great importance for European colleagues. Yet through all the contributions runs one basic idea: that legal history and legal histories inseparably belong together, as Stolleis masterfully demonstrated in his last book bearing the title "recht erzählen" (2021). Thus, personal recollections of friends and academic companions sustain the memory of an unique narrator of law. Michael Stolleis himself also has his say once again in a reprinted conversation about fathers, educational paths and contemporaneity

Front Cover -- Impressum -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Grußwort des Präsidenten der Goethe-Universität -- Grußwort des Dekans des Fachbereichs Rechtswissenschaft der Goethe-Universität -- Grußwort der Geschäftsführenden Direktorin am Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie -- B. Schlink: Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsgeschichten -- A. Gaillet: Michael Stolleis - eine französische Hommage -- M. Vec: »Deutsches Völkerrecht« - Eine Wissenschaftsgeschichte -- P. Cancik: Zur Geschichte des Kolonialrechts - ein Gespräch -- M. Kunze: Schlusswort -- »Rechtshistoriker sind Historiker«. Ein Gespräch mit Michael Stolleis über Väter, Bildungswege und Zeitgenossenschaft.

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