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European legal cultures / [editors] Volkmar Gessner, Armin Hoeland, Csaba Varga.

by Gessner, Volkmar., Hoeland, Armin., Varga, Csaba, 1941-

Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Dartmouth, c1996.

xviii, 567 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TEMPUS textbook series on European law and European legal cultures ; v. 1

Part I. Common Traditions -- Introduction : On the European Identity in Law -- Historical Regions of Europe -- 1. The Three Historical Regions of Europe / Jenö Szücs -- Foundations of European Legal Culture -- 2. Foundations of European Legal Culture / Franz Wieacker -- Conceptualization Compared : Civil Law and Common Law -- 3. Law and Custom : Reflections on the Relation between English Law and the English Language / Peter G. Sack -- Immutability of Rules and Principles of Legal Development -- 4. The Permanence of Roman Law Concepts / Imre Zajtay -- Formalism and Anti-formalism of Modern Law -- 5. Economy and Law (Sociology of Law) / Max Weber -- Legal Development : Customary, Judge-made and Statutory -- 6. Comparative Civil (Private) Law : Law Types and Law Groups, the Road of Legal Development / Gyula Eörsi -- Commonality of the Law of the European Union -- 7. Common Bases and Fundamental Values of European Community Law / Carl Otto Lenz -- Part II. The European Legal Mind -- Introduction : The Basic Settings of Modern Formal Law -- The Roman Conception of Law -- 8. On the Ius Concept of the Romans / Max Kaser -- Approach to Law : Medieval and Modern -- 9. 'Law' / Fritz Kern -- Legal Logic : Roman and Continental -- 10. Questions of Legal Logic in the History of the Philosophy of Law / Michel Villey -- Judicial Style : French and British -- 11. Characteristics of Judicial Style in France, Britain and the USA / Jean Louis Goutal -- Decision Reasoned : French, German, English, Nordic -- 12. Ratio et Auctoritas : A Comparative Study of the Significance of Reasoned Decisions with Special Reference to Civil Cases / Gunnar Bergholtz -- Citation of Norms, Reference to Norms -- 13. The Significance and Function of Legal Citations : Comparative-law Efforts to Standardize Citation Practice / Marc Forster -- Precedent in English Law -- 14. Precedent in English and Continental Law / A. L. Goodhart -- Decisional Law in Germany -- 15. Stare Decisis in the Civil and in the Common Law / Helen Silving -- Legislative Material in the Construction of Swedish Statutes -- 16. On the Law and Legal Scholarship in Scandinavia / Gyula Eörsi -- Courts and Judging : Civil Law and Common Law -- 17. The Doctrine of Stare Decisis and the Civil Law : A Fundamental Difference - or No Difference at All? / Mauro Cappelletti -- Psychology and Mentality in the Survival of an Old Dichotomy -- 18. Psychoanalytic Jurisprudence : On Ethics, Aesthetics and 'Law' - on Crime, Tort and Procedure / Albert A. Ehrenzweig -- Isolation in the Historical Perception of 'Splendid Isolation' -- 19. The European Character of English Law / Reinhard Zimmermann -- Commonality and Mutual Untranslatability of Legal Terminology -- 20. Law, Legal Language and the Legal System : Reflections on the Problems of Translating Legal Texts / Gérard-René de Groot -- Ends and Means Compared -- 21. Different Paths to Identical Solutions : Some Comments on Comparative Law / Konrad Zweigert -- Towards a European Convergence through European Values? -- 22. Harmonization of the Rules of Private Law between Civil Law and Common Law Countries / Franz Werro -- Part III. Totalitarian Legal Culture -- Introduction : European Legal Cultures under Totalitarianism -- The Concept of Law under National Socialism -- 23. The Concept of Law under National Socialism / Luc J. Wintgens -- 24. Law Philosophy and National Socialism : Heidegger, Schmitt and Radbruch in Context / Ian Ward -- The Degeneration of Justice in the Third Reich -- 25. Nazi Jurisprudence / Ingo Müller -- 26. Informal Justice in German Legal Development / Volkmar Gessner, Konstanze Plett -- The Soviet Versions of Totalitarian Legal Culture -- 27. Social Courts and Administrative Justice in Pre-revolutionary Russia : A Study in the Continuity of Russian Law / Friedrich-Christian Schroeder -- 28. Law Reform in the Soviet Union / Harold J. Berman -- 29. The Educational Role of the Soviet Court / Harold J. Berman -- 30. Was the Communist Party of the Soviet Union a Constitutional Organization? / Valerij M. Savickij -- 31. The Secret Criminal Trials in Poland during the Stalinist Period, as Illustrated by the Secret Section of the Warsaw Court during 1950-54 / Jacek R. Kubiak -- Part IV. The Patchwork of Legal Cultures in Europe -- Legal Cultures Compared : The American and the French and the German -- 32. The Law without the State / Laurent Cohen-Tanugi -- 33. Lawyers and their Society / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- The Italian Legal Culture -- 34. Legal Systems and the Problem of Legitimacy : The Italian Case / Vittorio Olgiati -- The Western Model of Administration -- 35. The Western Model of Administration / Gérard Timsit -- Styles of State Intervention -- 36. Welfare-state Intervention in International Perspective : Comparing the Federal Republic of Germany and Great Britain. Labour Protection as an Illustration of Regulatory Social Policy / Adrienne Héritier -- The Settlement of Administrative Disputes -- 37. The Role of the Mediator in French Institutions : An Assessment after Ten Years of Existence / Alain Serge Mescheriakoff --

38. Experiences of the Civil Rights Commissioner in Poland / Georg Jaster -- Labour Jurisdiction in France and Germany -- 39. The French Conseil de Prud'hommes : An Example of Decision-making within an Institutional Context / Patrick Hunout -- 40. The Contribution of Honorary Judges to Labour Conflict Resolution in Germany and France / Klaus Moritz -- Styles of Judicial Intervention in Juvenile Justice -- 41. Paternalism and Legalism in Juvenile Justice : Two Distinct Models / Antoine Garapon -- The Role of Courts in the Netherlands and Germany -- 42. Dutch Legal Culture Compared / Erhard Blankenburg, Freek Bruinsma -- The Role of Courts in Situations of Social Crisis -- 43. Moralism and a Mortally Threatened Italy / Vincenzo Ferrari -- 44. Law and Disorder : A Letter from Italy / David Nelken -- 45. The Justice Administration in the Cage of Politics. What would Happen if Italian Public Prosecutors Investigated German Politicians? / Heribert Prantl -- Associations in the Legislative Process -- 46. Regulatory Agencies and Interest Groups in Occupational Health and Safety in Great Britain and Western Germany : A Perspective from Western Germany / Sylvia Gräbe -- The Role of Lawyers in Different Political Environments -- 47. The Judicial and Legal Professions in Contemporary History : Forms of Organization in Various European Countries / Jean-Louis Halperin -- 48. The Position and Role of Lawyers in Hungary over the Past Four Decades / K. Kulcsár -- The Globalization of the Legal Profession -- 49. The Cultures of Globalization : Professional Restructuring for the International Market / John Flood -- Market Cultures and Corporatist Cultures in European Business Relations -- 50. Cultural Issues and the Single European Market : Barriers to Trade and Shifting Attitudes / Kenneth Dyson -- Criminality in East and West -- 51. Criminality in East and West in Light of the Political Upheaval in Eastern Europe / Edwin Kube, Karl-Friedrich Koch -- 52. Reflections on the Causes of Low Criminality : An Analytical Essay / Andreas Borning -- Part V. Transition to the Rule of Law -- Introduction : Complexity of the Challenge Facing Central and Eastern Europe -- Legal Continuity Discontinued -- 53. Concerning the Constitutional State and the Critical Reappraisal of Pre-constitutional Past / Christian Starck, Wilfried Berg, Bodo Pieroth -- Dilemmas of Justice in Transition -- 54. Disqualification, Retribution, Restitution : Dilemmas of Justice in Post-communist Transitions / Claus Offe -- The Problem of Statutory Limitations -- 55. Coming to Terms with the Past and Its Statutory Limitations / Csaba Varga -- Constitutional Review Compared -- 56. The New Courts : An Overview / Hermann Schwartz -- Judicial Activism in Controlling the Constitutionality of Legislation -- 57. The Constitutionality of Legislation / Béla Pokol -- Public Administration Transformed -- 58. On Transforming a Real-Socialist Administration into a Classical European Administration / Klaus König -- Civil Society and Local Self-government -- 59. The Re-emergence of Local Self-government in Central Europe / Ingemar Elander, Mattias Gustafsson -- The State of Civil Law in Hungary Between Yesterday and Tomorrow -- 60. The State of Civil Law in Hungary Between Yesterday and Tomorrow / Tomas Sárközy -- Biases of Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law -- 61. Rule by Law in East Central Europe / András Sajó -- Perspectives of Law for the Region -- 62. Legitimation, State and Law in the Central European Return to Democracy / Maria Los -- Imposition without Adaptation? New Opportunities for Old Failure -- 63. The Evolution of Law in Central and Eastern Europe : Are we Witnessing a Renaissance of 'Law and Development'? / Armin Hoeland -- 64. Designing the Legal Framework for Markets in Eastern Europe / Paul H. Brietzke -- Part VI. European Integration -- Introduction : National Legal Orders Without a European Legal Culture? -- European Integration by Law -- 65. The Role of Law in European Integration / Jean-Paul Jacqué -- 66. Community Law and National Constitutional Values / Bruno de Witte -- 67. The Contours of Integrated Europe : The Origin, Status and Prospects of European Integration / Armin von Bogdandy -- Socio-legal Contours of the Project Europe -- 68. The Transformation of European Legal Cultures / Volkmar Gessner -- 69. Project Europe / Richard Münch -- The Lack of a European Public Opinion -- 70. Public Opinion in the EC as a Constitutional Problem / Alexander von Brünneck -- Legal Problems of Multilingualism -- 71. Linguistic Problems in the Jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice -- 72. Transnational Law and Multilingualism / Petra Braselmann -- 73. The EU's Language Policy Dilemma : Maintain the Official Languages Ideology or make Day-to-Day Work Easier? / Joachim Born -- The Europeanization of Agriculture as an Example for Modernization -- 74. The European Community and the End of the Agricultural Exception / Placide Rambaud -- The Emergence of New Institutional Arrangements in the Union -- 75. Institutional Structures of the European Union / Gerd Winter -- 76. A Quiet Revolution through Administrative Procedure : Bureaucratic Integration Processes in the European Community / Maurizio Bach.

1855215268 (hbk.)

1855215306 (pbk.)

"The volume consists of some eighty excerpts from legal and legal-sociological publications which deal with important historical and philosophical characteristics of law in Europe as well as with sociological aspects of 'living law' in the area. In spite of their common tradition of a scientific 'law of reason' European societies show remarkable differences if one compares the role law plays in specific sectors like state administration, courts, legal profession and economy. Some European societies are more and some are less rule oriented which leads to problems in state regulation and in particular in implementation of European law. The complexity of European Legal Cultures is also mirrored by experiences with totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, by the transitional period of the former socialist countries and by the developing culture of the European Union. The six parts of the book are carefully introduced by the authors and contain annotations and lists for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.

Eurovoc French:

consolidation du droit de l'UE

sociologie du droit

Eurovoc English:

consolidation of EU law

sociology of law

Eurovoc Polish:

konsolidacja prawa UE

socjologia prawa

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