Justice and Prejudice. The Jewish Minority before Territorial Courts in 18th century Germany

由于“现代普遍公理”和启蒙自然正义的假设，神圣德意志帝国的大多数法理学家都假定犹太人在法庭上的待遇是平等的。该项目旨在审查18世纪德国领土上高等法院的做法在多大程度上符合这一主张，或者它是否受到特定偏见的影响。为了了解三个基督教教派之间的区别，将比较四个不同地区的高等法院的案件记录和判决理由（Kurköln, j<s:1> lich- berg, Lippe, Brandenburg-Ansbach）。此外，该项目将重建18世纪法律实践的变化。它将质疑本世纪下半叶关于犹太人宽容的辩论是否产生了积极影响。

Due to the usus modernus pandectarum and the assumptions of enlightened natural justice, most jurisprudents in the Holy German Empire presumed equality of treatment of Jewish parties going to court. The project aims in scrutinizing in how far the practice of high courts in 18th century German territories was in accordance with this claim, or if it was affected by specific prejudice. In order to keep distinctions between the three Christian denominations in mind, case records and reasons for the judgment stemming from high courts of four different territories will be compared (Kurköln, Jülich-Berg, Lippe, Brandenburg-Ansbach). Furthermore, the project will reconstruct the change of legal practice during the 18th century. It will query whether the debate on toleration of the Jews in the second half of the century caused any positive effect.