Peeter Järvelaid

Peeter Järvelaid ( born November 28, 1957 in Tallinn) is an Estonian legal scholar and historian and Professor at the University of Tallinn. He represents a semiotic and people -oriented approach in his research and has written hundreds of articles on European and especially Estonian legal history as well as to legal education. His works have been translated into eight languages. Since 2006 he deals with international relations in the 20th century, which led him to extensive archival research in Germany and Poland.

Career

Järvelaid studied at the State University of Tartu 1976-1981 Jura, a doctorate in Moscow in 1990 and taught in Tartu from 1981 to 1997 ( latterly as ord. Professor of Legal History ). Then he was ord. Professor at the Academy North (1997-2010), Rector of the Estonian Academy of Public Service and Public Safety, Rector of the Estonian Marine Academy and ord since 2010. Professor at the University of Tallinn. He was also an advisor to the Estonian Ministry of Justice and has countless abroad completed including a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. He is a member of the editorial college of four law journals.

Awards and honors

For his services Järvelaid was awarded in 2003 with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Family

Järvelaid is married and father of three children.

Selected Publications

  • The reception Kelsen and the influence of the Pure Theory of Law in Estonia, in: Robert Walter, Clemens Jabloner Klaus Zeleny (ed.): Hans Kelsen elsewhere - Hans Kelsen abroad: The influence of the Pure Theory of Law on legal theory in different countries, Hans Kelsen Institute - University of Vienna: Manz Verlag Wien, 2010, 73-88.
  • The early work Ilmar Tammelos: The path to the scientists, in: Raimund Jacob, Lothar Philipps, Erich Schweighofer, Csaba Varga (ed.): On the way to the idea of justice. In memory of Ilmar Tammelo, Vienna -Münster: LIT, 2009, 5-21.
  • Friedrich Georg von Bunge and Leo Leesment. A biographical essay, in: Baltic- European legal history and lexicography, Heidelberg, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences: University Press Winter 2009, 233-280.
  • Baltic Legal History of Science: Professor Jüri Uluots (1890-1945) in his time and ours, in: Juridiska Zinatne = Law 2008, 73-94.
  • European legal historians of the 19th century, Professor Oswald Schmidt - a lawyer from Livonia, who taught during the age of nationalism and national awakening Legal History, in: Juridiska Zinatne = Law 2008, 61-72.
  • No state without a state myth. Kalevipoeg - its state-supporting design for Estonia. An attempt to reconstruct the kingdom Kreutz Forest and Kalevipoegs, in: B. Diestelkamp ( ed.), Liber Amicorum Kjell A. Modeer, Lund: Lund University Press 2007, 285-294.
  • Baltic Legal History of Science: two cross-border legal historian Friedrich von Bunge and Leo Leesment, in: Juridiska Zinatne = Law 2006, 99-138.
  • FG Bunge as a professor at the University of Dorpat / Tartu (1831-1842), in: Eesti Õpetatud Seltsi Toimetised XXXV: Tundmatu Friedrich Georg von Bunge: Materjale Õpetatud Eesti Seltsi konverentsilt 200 aastat prof Friedrich Georg von Bunge ( 1802-1897 ) sünnist Tartu Ülikooli ajaloo muuseumis 27 aprillil 2002 .., Tartu 2006, 70 -75.
  • Enlargement of the European Union in the 21 -st century - Either integration or moving on parallel ways, in: Evaluation of legislation: proceedings of the fourth congress of the European Association of Legislation ( EAL ): evaluation of legislation in Warsaw (Poland ), 15th - 16th 2000, Baden -Baden: European Association of Legislation; German Society of Legislation, 2002, 156-169.
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