European supreme courts : a portrait through history / editors, Alain Wijffels and C.H. (Remco) van Rhee ; contributors, Paolo Alvazzi del Frate (University of Rome 3) [and twenty-seven others].
Description: 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 29 cmISBN:- 9781906507404 (hbk.)
- 1906507406 (hbk.)
- KJC3684. E97 2013
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Book-Circulating | Fischer Hall Library Oversize | KJC3684. E97 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | B011909 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287).
Foreword / Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury (President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) -- Section One. Introduction: European legal history and the diversity of supreme judicators / Alain Wijffels -- 1. Italy from medieval times to 1800 / Mario Ascheri -- 2. Italy since 1796 / Paolo Alvazzi Del Frate -- 3. Late-medieval and early-modern France / Alain Wijffels -- 4. France from the Revolution to the present / Alain Wijffels -- 5. The Holy Roman Empire: the Imperial Courts' system and the Reichshofrat / Eva Ortlieb -- 6. The Holy Roman Empire: the Reichskammergericht / Anette Baumann -- 7. The Holy Roman Empire: the Court of Wismar / Nils Jörn -- 8. The Scandinavian supreme courts / Kjell Å. Modéer -- 9. Germany and Austria in the 19th and 20th centuries / Werner Ogris -- 10. Spain and Portugal until the 18th century / Ignacio Czeguhn and Antonio Sanchez Aranda -- 11. Switzerland / Michele Luminati -- 12. Spain and Portugal after 1800 / Matthew C. Mirow and Alvaro Perez-Ragone -- 13. Poland-Lithuania / Wacław Uruszczak -- 14. Russia / Vladimir Yarkov -- 15. The English common law and Chancery jurisdiction, late Middle Ages and early-modern times / Anthony Musson -- 16. The restructuring of the Superior Courts in England during the 19th century / Chantal Stebbings -- 17. Scotland: the Court of Session from its foundation to 1800 / Mark Godfrey -- 18. The Scottish Court of Session in the 19th and 20th centuries / John Blackie -- 19. The Low Countries until 1800 / C.H. (Remco) Van Rhee -- 20. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg since 1800 / Georges Martyn -- 21. Southeastern Europe, 1526{u2013}1820 / Marko Petrak -- 22. The Ottoman Empire and Turkey / Ruth A. Miller -- Section Two. Introduction: Supreme judicature in the 20th and 21st centuries / C.H. (Remco) Van Rhee -- 23. 20th-century international courts and peaceful dispute settlement / Raymond Kubben -- 24. The Court of Justice of the European Union / Hildigarde Schneider -- 25. The European Court of Human Rights / Alan Uzelac.