<jats:p>Based on Harpprechts rise to become one of the most prominent professors of law at the time in Tübingen, Gabriele Nieder studies the development of the teaching of law at the Eberhard Karls University between 1670 and 1714. Numerous newly evaluated sources document Harpprechts key role as a ducal councilor in the Reunions conflict between the House of Württemberg and Louis XIV surrounding his county of Mömpelgard on the left bank of the Rhine.</jats:p>