Volume two of the series IVS SAXONICO-MAIDEBVRGENSE IN ORIENTE presents the results of investigation into the dissemination of the law book Sachsenspiegel, Magdeburg city law, and related legal sources in Poland. The research project, carried out at the Saxony Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, examined not only how legal norms were influenced and exerted their own impacts, but also the effects of language on law.

The international and interdisciplinary conference in Leipzig from October 31 to 2 November 2003 forms the prelude to a major research project on the subject a oeSaxon-Magdeburg law as a cultural link between the legal systems of Eastern andCentral Europea . The conference took place in an extremely up-to-date context, as the extension of the EU through the accession of several eastern central European countries was about to take place.