Max Lyles
About Max Lyles
I am an Associate Professor of law. I currently teach: legal history, jurisprudence, legal theory, comparative law, and private law (contracts and torts).
Research
My main area of research is the history of legal science and jurisprudence, especially the Uppsala School of jurisprudence, a.k.a. Scandinavian legal realism. (See A Call for Scientific Purity: Axel Hägerström’s Critique of Legal 91̽»¨, 2006.) Apart from studies into the history of general jurisprudence and the history of legal science I have investigated the status of customary law in Swedish law and jurisprudence and the relationship between general principles and doctrines of law and the genesis of various legal institutions of private law [rättsinstitut]. Since 2016 I am a scientific advisor to the Olin Foundation for Legal History. For a full list of publications, including texts, see:
Administrative posts
Director of Post Graduate Studies, Department of Law, Gothenburg University (2018 - 20); Assistant Head of Department of Law (2020-21 and 2024).
Member of the Olin Foundation for Legal History's Scientific Advisory Board (2016 - )
Director of Law Program, Örebro University, 2012-2013.Director of Division at the School of Law, Örebro University, 2013-2016.
On other web sites
Research areas
- Legal History
- Jurisprudence
Teaching areas
- Legal History
- Jurisprudence
- Comparative Law
- Private Law
Selected publications
Rättshistoria: Rättsvetenskapens utveckling i Sverige [Legal History: The Development of Legal 91̽»¨ in Sweden]. Max Lyles and Filippo Valguarnera, Studentlitteratur 2024.
"Rättsstat och rättsordning: En frÃ¥ga om rättens verkliga ²µ±ð²Ô´Ç³¾´Úö°ù²¹²Ô»å±ð", Max Lyles, in Rättsstatens utmaningar, Marianne Dahlén and Görel Granström (eds.), Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning, Jure (dist.), 2024.
Norstedts Juridik 200 år - En jubileumsskrift. Max Lyles and Filippo Valguarnera (eds.), Norstedts Juridik 2023.
Rätt, rättskällor och rättstillämpning - En lärobok i allmän °ùä³Ù³Ù²õ±ôä°ù²¹. Stig Strömholm, Max Lyles and Filippo Valguarnera. Norstedts Juridik, 6 uppl. 2020.
A Call for Scientific Purity, Lyles, Max
"Ekonomisk kris, avtalsfrihet och avbetalningsköpets ´Úö»å±ð±ô²õ±ð". Lyles, Max, in Rätten i den ekonomiska krisen, Uppsala : Iustus förlag, p. 13-42, 2011
"Sedvanas omvandling till lag och rätt", Lyles, Max, in De lege, 2011 \, Rätten och rättsfamiljer i ett föränderligt samhälle - rättshistoriskt och komparativt : vänbok till Rolf Nygren, Iustus förlag, p. 287-304, 2011
"Tradition, conviction and necessity, Lyles, Max, in Rättshistoriska studier, 25, Rechtswissenschaft als juristische Doktrin : ein Rechtshistorisches Seminar in Stockholm 29. bis 30. Mai 2009, Stockholm : Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning, p. 161-179, 2011