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

由于现代惯例和开明的自然正义的假设，神圣德意志帝国的大多数保皇派都假定犹太人在法庭上受到平等的待遇。该项目旨在审查18世纪世纪德国领土高等法院的做法在多大程度上符合这一主张，或者是否受到具体偏见的影响。为了牢记三个基督教教派之间的区别，将比较四个不同地区（库尔科隆、于利希-贝格、利佩、勃兰登堡-安斯巴赫）高等法院的案件记录和判决理由。此外，该项目将重建世纪法律的实践的变化。它将质疑是否容忍犹太人在世纪后半叶的辩论造成了任何积极的影响。

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.