Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in Contemporary Judicial Systems

This book is a collection of papers that address a fundamental question: What is the role of civil justice and civil procedure in the various national traditions in the contemporary world? The book presents striking differences among a range of countries and legal traditions, but also points to comm...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Uzelac, Alan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Series:Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
Subjects:
Law
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Part I General Synthesis
  • Chapter 1 Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in the Contemporary World  Global Developments – Towards Harmonisation (and Back); Alan Uzelac
  • Part II National Perspectives
  • Chapter 2 Civil Justice in Austrian-German Tradition; Christian Koller
  • Chapter 3 Civil Justice in Pursuit of Efficiency; C.H. van Rhee
  • Chapter 4 Goals of Civil Justice When Nothing Works: The Case of Italy; Elisabetta Silvestri
  • Chapter 5 Goals of Civil Justice in Norway: Readiness for a Pragmatic Reform; Inge Lorange Backer
  • Chapter 6 ‘American Exceptionalism’ in Goals for Civil Litigation; Richard Marcus
  • Chapter 7 Civil Justice with Multiple Objectives The Unique Path of Hong Kong’s Civil Justice Reform; Peter C.H. Chan and David Chan
  • Chapter 8 Social Harmony at the Cost of Trust Crisis: Goals of Civil Justice in China’; Yulin Fu
  • Chapter 9 Civil Litigation in Russia: ‘Guided Justice’ and Revival of Public Interest; Dmitry HeroldovichNokhrin
  • Chapter 10 Battle between Individual Rights and Public Interest in Hungarian Civil Procedure; Miklós Kengyel and Gergely Czoboly
  • Chapter 11 (In)compatibility of Procedural Preclusions with the Goals of Civil Justice: An Ongoing Debate in Slovenia; Aleš Galič
  • Chapter 12 Judicial Activism as Goals Setting – Civil Justice in Brazil; Teresa Arruda Alvim Wambier
  • List of Contributors