Suum cuique tribuere
Subtitle: legal contexts, judicial archetypes and deep-structures regarding courts of appeal and judiciaries from early modern to late modern Europe
By: Kjell Å Modéer & Martin Sunnqvist (eds.).
Series: Rättshistoriska Studier -- Band 27; Skrifter utgivna av Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning -- Bd. 27
Publisher: Institutet för rättshistorisk
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9789186645113
Subjects: Appellate courts; History; Congresses; Appellate procedure
Description: Comparative legal cultures is today an important field of research for legal historians worldwide. In this volume, prominent legal scholars from several European countries as well as from the United States and Australia contribute not only with chronological surveys but also with interesting field studies to current discourses about courts in Europe from the early modern period of time. Kjell Å Modéer is professor emeritus in legal history and Martin Sunnqvist, LL. D., is a district judge (Malmö City Court) and adjunct senior lecturer in legal history and procedural law. They are both active at the Law Faculty, Lund University, Sweden.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Suum cuique tribuere : an introduction  -- Kjell Å. Modéer; title: Central and peripheral courts : changing historical perspectives  -- Alain Wijffels; title: Imperial control of the Aulic Council and the Imperial Chamber Court : law and reality  -- Wolfgang Sellert; title: How legal actions can end : alternative forms of ending proceedings before the Imperial Chamber Court in the seventeenth and eighteenth century  -- Anja Amend-Traut; title: The legacy of the Parliament of Paris in the longue durée  -- Jean-Louis Halpérin; title: Michel de L'Hôpital and Christophe de Thou : two perceptions of royal justice during the French religious wars  -- Marie Seong-Hak Kim; title: The House of Lords as a court of appeal in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries  -- Wilfrid Prest; title: Hybrid appellate courts in the early Republic  -- Maeva Marcus; title: The Swedish Court and appeal system in the Russian Empire : the case of Livland in 1710-1889  -- Marju Luts-Sootak; title: Danish Courts of Appeal from early-modern to modern times  -- Per Andersen; title: Courts of appeal in Norway -- Sören Koch-- Discussion /-- intervention by Bernhard Diestelkamp and reply by Heikki Pihlajamäki.