Law
Travelling Titles: Imported Doctorates and Educational Protectionism in a Globalizing World, 1890-1920. From the end of the 19th century, rapid globalization led to an increase in transatlantic educational mobility. While many American medical students went to the major faculties in Vienna and Berlin to complete their studies, at the same time numerous Austrian and German…
The research project in question undertakes the attempt of tracing the “transfer” of legal thought, Austrian norms and maybe also “Austrian legal culture” to the United States. It does so by telling the story of three “Austrian” legal scholars, who all left their alma mater between 1933 and 1945 and continued their career in the…