European supreme courts
Subtitle: a portrait through history
By: editors, Alain Wijffels and C.H. (Remco) van Rhee ; contributors, Paolo Alvazzi del Frate (University of Rome 3) [and twenty-seven others]
Publisher: Third Millennium Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781906507404
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Courts of last resort; History
Description: "A lavishly illustrated new hardback book, the culmination of more than three years' work by a team of leading legal historians and experts drawn from faculties across Europe and beyond. The book explores in a lively and accessible style the history of supreme courts structures throughout the European continent from the high medieval period to the modern day. The story is one of considerable diversity, but it also reveals many common themes which influenced the practice of law at the highest level in different times and places. To an extent which may surprise many readers, supreme courts in Europe, particularly in the pre-Napoleonic era, grappled with many of the problems of multifarious nationalities, languages, traditions and jurisdictions which are familiar challenges for lawyers working within the international supreme and supranational courts we know today. Indeed, the book serves to set the contemporary role of the international supreme courts within the context of a strikingly rich legacy of legal traditions, culture and history in Europe"--Unedited summary from book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury (President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom); title: Section One. Introduction: European legal history and the diversity of supreme judicators / Alain Wijffels; title: 1. Italy from medieval times to 1800 / Mario Ascheri; title: 2. Italy since 1796 / Paolo Alvazzi Del Frate; title: 3. Late-medieval and early-modern France / Alain Wijffels; title: 4. France from the Revolution to the present / Alain Wijffels; title: 5. The Holy Roman Empire: the Imperial Courts' system and the Reichshofrat / Eva Ortlieb; title: 6. The Holy Roman Empire: the Reichskammergericht / Anette Baumann; title: 7. The Holy Roman Empire: the Court of Wismar / Nils Jörn; title: 8. The Scandinavian supreme courts / Kjell Å. Modéer; title: 9. Germany and Austria in the 19th and 20th centuries / Werner Ogris; title: 10. Spain and Portugal until the 18th century / Ignacio Czeguhn and Antonio Sanchez Aranda; title: 11. Switzerland / Michele Luminati; title: 12. Spain and Portugal after 1800 / Matthew C. Mirow and Alvaro Perez-Ragone; title: 13. Poland-Lithuania / Wacław Uruszczak; title: 14. Russia / Vladimir Yarkov; title: 15. The English common law and Chancery jurisdiction, late Middle Ages and early-modern times / Anthony Musson; title: 16. The restructuring of the Superior Courts in England during the 19th century / Chantal Stebbings; title: 17. Scotland: the Court of Session from its foundation to 1800 / Mark Godfrey; title: 18. The Scottish Court of Session in the 19th and 20th centuries / John Blackie; title: 19. The Low Countries until 1800 / C.H. (Remco) Van Rhee; title: 20. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg since 1800 / Georges Martyn; title: 21. Southeastern Europe, 1526{u2013}1820 / Marko Petrak; title: 22. The Ottoman Empire and Turkey / Ruth A. Miller; title: Section Two. Introduction: Supreme judicature in the 20th and 21st centuries / C.H. (Remco) Van Rhee; title: 23. 20th-century international courts and peaceful dispute settlement / Raymond Kubben; title: 24. The Court of Justice of the European Union / Hildigarde Schneider; title: 25. The European Court of Human Rights / Alan Uzelac.