 Together they also established "The School of Salamanca" as long-term research project at the Academia of Science and Literature Mainz and thereby managed to combine research perspectives in the fields of legal history and philosophy.Since 2002 the institute's journal "Rechtsgeschichte" appears annually in print (Klostermann Verlag) and is simultaneously available through open access since 2012.Its predecessors were IUS COMMUNE, journal for European legal history (1967-2001), and the Rechtshistorisches Journal (journal on legal history, 1982-2001).