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62 Hung. J. Legal Stud. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/ajur62 and id is 1 raw text is: Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies 62 (2021) 1, 1-23 DOI: 10.1556/2052.2021.00335 AKAD IIAI AD6 Thoughts on Elemer P6lay's early work: National socialism and Roman Law EVA JAKAB* University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER Received: March 10, 2020 Accepted: April 19, 2021 Published online: February 23, 2022 © 2021 The Author(s) ABSTRACT The paper deals with the publications of Elemer P6lay before and during WW2. It seeks to analyse them in their context, embedded in their contemporary political and academic environment. It focuses on one of P6lay's early works, entitled 'The German National Socialist Conception of Law and Roman Law' (1938). P6lay's paper is a valuable source on the academic situation in Hungary in the 1930s and 1940s, on the views of young scholars around Paul Koschaker in Berlin, and, indirectly, on Koschaker's personal views concerning the National Socialist party's manifesto. KEYWORDS legal history, Roman law, national socialism, Elem6r P6lay 1. INTRODUCTION The present study deals with the works of the Hungarian Romanist Elemer PMlay, published before and during WW2. It seeks to analyse them in their context, embedded in their contemporary political and academic environment.1 The primary focus is on one of PMlay's * Corresponding author. E-mail: eva.jakab09@gmail.com 'It is not the intention of the present paper to discuss the life of Elemer P61ay. On that, see Jakab (2015) 17-32, P. Szabo (2015) 46, MolnAr (1999a), Moln'r (1999b) 7-12. P61ay was extraordinary professor at the Law Academy after 1945, and, after his habilitation, full-time adjunct professor at the Law Academy from 1946, see Stipta (2009) 83.