CONFERENCE: ONLINE LECTURE, Prof. Gerald KOHL, Judicial independence in Austria from Pre- March to the 21 st century (25 APR , 4:30 pm, online)

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The oldest Polish journal of legal history, Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne (CPH; Legal History Journal), published by the Faculty of Law and Administration at AMU since 1948, is organizing a series of online lectures. The editor-in-chief of CPH, Dr. Hab. Maksymilian Stanulewicz, a professor at AMU, warmly invites all interested scholars and students to participate in our online lectures and to submit papers to CPH. The series is organized by the Editorial Secretary of CPH, Dr. Piotr Alexandrowicz (piotr.alexandrowicz@amu.edu.pl)

For more information on the series, please visit the website

FIRST LECTURE

Title: Judicial independence in Austria from Pre-March to the 21^st century

Speaker: prof. Gerald Kohl

Date: April 25^th, 4:30 pm CEST

Link to the online meeting:meeting link

Abstract: Judicial independence in Austria was achieved step-by-step. The development did not proceed in the sense of a straightforward, continuous “progress”, but was characterized by several setbacks. And even today, judicial independence has to be fought for anew every day. The presentation will give an overview of two centuries of legal development and highlight current challenges.

CV: Born 1965; 1993 Dr. iuris; 2005 “Habilitation“ for the subjects “Austrian and European Legal History, including Constitutional History of the Modern Age“ and “European Private Law Development“ (“Privatdozent”); 2006 Associate Professor (public servant, tenured); 2009 appointed Deputy Head, Department of Legal and Constitutional History (Univ. Vienna). 2015 elected Treasurer of the „International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions“; 2018 appointed member of the „Kommission für Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs“ [Commission for Austrian Legal History] of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; various other functions and memberships. Co-editor and co-author of the leading Austrian textbook “Manual Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte” (6^th edition 2022). Main areas of work: Austrian constitutional history, esp. 19^th and 20^th cent.; History of private law, esp. property law, land registry, agrarian communities, housing laws; History of justice (collected volumes on judges, state attorneys, laypersons); Popular legal literature; Law and Language.

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Chair: Prof. Wojciech Piątek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

JOURNAL: Pouvoirs. Revue française d'études constitutionnelles et politiques 2021/3 [Special Issue: La justice - regards critiques]

 

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« Ceci n’est pas un pouvoir » Le débat autour de la place de l’autorité judiciaire en France (Arnaud Le Pillouer)

Indépendance, vous avez dit indépendance ? Questions sur une valeur essentielle de la justice (Guy Canivet)

Énième retour sur la critique du « gouvernement des juges » Pour en finir avec le mythe (Wanda Mastor)

Une justice politisée ? (Bertrand Mathieu)

La déformation des juges (Arnaud Philippe)

Irresponsables magistrats ? (Mathieu Soula)

Justice et médias, duo ou duel ? (Denis Salas)

La justice prédictive : peut-on réduire le droit en algorithmes ? (Frédéric Rouvière)

La justice fragmentée (Aurélia Schaff)

Entre justice privée et justice étatique : Facebook et le legalwashing de sa « cour suprême » (Matthieu Gaye-Palettes)

Ministre de la justice, un oxymore ? (Nicole Belloubet)

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BOOK: David NASH and Anne-Marie KILDAY (Eds.), Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 - Microhistories of Justice and Injustice (London: Bloomsbury, 2020). ISBN 9781350050945, 76.50 GBP

 

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Bloomsbury is publishing a book using a microhistorical approach to the evolution of the modern justice system in the UK.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Adopting a microhistory approach, Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern justice system. Drawing upon criminal cases and trials from England, Scotland, and Ireland, the book examines the errors, procedural systems, and the ways in which adverse influences of social and cultural forces impacted upon individual instances of justice.

The book investigates several case studies of both justice and injustice which prompted the development of forensic toxicology, the implementation of state propaganda and an increased interest in press sensationalism. One such case study considers the trial of William Sheen, who was prosecuted and later acquitted of the murder of his infant child at the Old Baily in 1827, an extraordinary miscarriage of justice that prompted outrage amongst the general public. Other case studies include trials for treason, theft, obscenity and blasphemy. Nash and Kilday root each of these cases within their relevant historical, cultural, and political contexts, highlighting changing attitudes to popular culture, public criticism, protest and activism as significant factors in the transformation of the criminal trial and the British judicial system as a whole.

Drawing upon a wealth of primary sources, including legal records, newspaper articles and photographs, this book provides a unique insight into the evolution of modern criminal justice in Britain.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

David Nash is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is one of three Editors of the journal, Cultural and Social History. David Nash is the author of several books, including Christian Ideals in British Society (2013) and Blasphemy in the Christian World (2007).

Anne-Marie Kilday is Professor of Criminal History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is author of A History of Infanticide in Britain (2013), co-author of Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1600-1900 (2010) and editor (with David Nash) of Histories of Crime, 1600-2000 (2010).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction, David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday (both of Oxford Brookes University, UK)

1. "A Monstrous Innovation on the Laws": The William Sheen Case; Child Murder and Double Jeopardy at the Old Bailey, Heather Shore (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

2. That Justice Shall Be Done Impartially: Pre-Trial Publicity and Palmer's Act of 1856, Katherine Watson (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

3. "We Want Justice to be Done": Press, Jury, and the Question of Fairness in the Trial of George Vass, Clare Sandford-Couch (University of Northumbria, UK)

4. The Trials of Peter Barrett: A Microhistory of Dysfunction in the Irish Criminal Justice System, Niamh Howlin (University College Dublin, Ireland)

5. The Maamtrasna Murders: Lawful Trials v. Fair Trials, Conor Hanley (NUI Galway, Ireland)

6. George Bedborough and the Watford University Press: A 'Scandalous and Obscene Libel in the Form of a Book'; The Almost Accidental Prosecution of Sexual Inversion, Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library and University College London, UK)

7. Will the Real Oscar Slater Please Stand Up?: The 1908 Murder of Marion Gilchrist Revisited, Anne-Marie Kilday (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

8. Gott and Pack and the 'Leeds Police Fiasco': The Apparent 'Inevitability' of Unfair Blasphemy Trials, David Nash (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

9. The Framing of Alice Wheeldon: Anti-War Activist and Feminist Up Against the State, Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

10. The 'Bobbed Haired Bandit' and Smash and Grab Raider, Alyson Brown (Edge Hill University, UK)

Conclusion, David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday (both of Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Bibliography

Index

 

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ARTICLE: Antônio Manuel HESPANHA and Walter GUANDALINI JR. A motivação das sentenças de revista nas primeiras décadas dos Supremos Tribunais de Justiça no Brasil e em Portugal (1834-1866)

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The Law Journal Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFPR has published an article by Antônio Manuel Hespanha and Walter Guandalini Jr. on "The motivation of appeal decisions in the first decades of the Brazilian and Portuguese Supreme Courts of Justice (1834-1866)". This is probably one of the last articles from prof. Hespanha, who sadly passed away in 1 July 2019.

A motivação das sentenças de revista nas primeiras décadas dos Supremos Tribunais de Justiça no Brasil e em Portugal (1834-1866)

In this study, a comparative analysis of the motivations in appeal decisions by the Supreme Courts of Justice inBrazil and Portugal in the second half of the nineteenth centuryis carried out. It begins by historically contextualizingthe doctrinal understanding,in the legal the duty of  motivation regarding sentences,showing yhat  in pre-modern societies this duty  was considered  an  accessory  instrument,  necessary  only  for  the  preservation  of  royal  law.  Then,  the content  analysis  method  was  used  to  evaluate itsspecificities  regarding  the  characteristics  of  the appeals (origin, matter, rationale) and of the recurrent parts (gender, social status). Correlations were identified between the applicants’characteristics, the matters contested and the typesof reasoning employed, and in the end it was possible to conclude that the decisions made during thisperiod maybe characterized as transitional jurisprudence, midway between the pluralistic reasoning of the oldregime and thelegalistic foundation typical of modernity.

More information:https://revistas.ufpr.br/direito/article/view/68498/40616

BOOK: Stefano VINCI, Il dibattito sul giudice unico in Italia tra Ottocento e Novecento. Processo civile, processo penale e ordinamento giudiziario (Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 2016). ISBN: 9788863429756, pp. 292, € 18,00

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Collana: IusRegni. Collana di Storia del diritto medievale, moderno e contemporaneo.

Il volume raccoglie i risultati di studi e ricerche svolte dall’Autore su fonti bibliografiche ed archivistiche, aventi ad oggetto l’acceso dibattito scientifico, forense e parlamentare che ha riguardato l’istituzione del giudice unico in Italia tra 1800 e 1900. Il problema ebbe risonanza a partire dalla rivoluzione francese, quando si fece strada l’idea che il giudizio collegiale avrebbe costituito una maggiore garanzia dall’arbitrio dei giudici di antico regime. Sulla base di tale principio, gli ordinamenti giudiziari italiani, istituiti durante il decennio francese, adottarono il modello collegiale napoleonico, lasciando soltanto alle magistrature inferiori il giudice unico, spesso accompagnato da alcuni assessori, al fine di mitigare il potere monocratico. Dopo la Restaurazione, invece, si fece strada l’idea di un maggiore favore per il sistema monocratico sulla scorta di studi comparatistica delle legislazioni europee che portarono, dopo l’Unità, all’introduzione dei pretori con competenza limitata in materia civile e correzionale. Le successive esigenze di ridurre la spesa pubblica in materia di giustizia e le pressanti richieste da parte dei magistrati di migliorare le loro condizioni economiche portarono, fin dagli inizi del Novecento, alla formulazione di numerosi progetti sulla giustizia monocratica di prima istanza in materia civile e penale, che furono oggetto di dotte discussioni tenutesi alla Camera ed al Senato, poi sfociate nella legge sul giudice unico del 1990.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stefano Vinci è ricercatore di Storia del Diritto Medievale e Moderno all’Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Insegna Storia delle Codificazioni moderne nel Corso di Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza presso il Dipartimento Jonico in Sistemi giuridici ed economici del Mediterraneo: società, ambiente, culture dell’Ateneo barese. È autore di saggi sulla storia giuridica del Mezzogiorno nell’Ottocento e sulla storia dell’avvocatura nel ventennio fascista. Di recente ha pubblicato per i nostri tipi il volume Le Supreme Corti di Giustizia nella storia giuridica del Mezzogiorno (Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica 2015).

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BOOK: Ermanno CALZOLAIO and Luigi LACCHÈ, eds., Justice and Unjusticiability: Perspectives and Issues between History and Comparison (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2020). ISBN 978-3-643-91099-8, 34.90 EUR

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Lit Verlag has published a new book on unjusticiability and non-justiciability from a historical and comparative perspective.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The book tries to identify the main contours of unjusticiability and non-justiciability from an historical and comparative perspective distinguishing between common law world and civil law tradition. In the light of a general overview, the aim of this publication is to reflect on the utility of paving the way for a much wider approach to unjusticiability. More precisely, some scholars have recently suggested that such a notion could embrace all the situations where a court does not decide a case, so that it is impossible for the plaintiff to have the case decided by a court. A first category covers the situations where the court refuses to judge because it does not want to judge, A second category is related to all the cases where there is an impossibility to reach a decision. Anycase if the judge cannot or does not wish to make justice – si iudex non facit iustitiam –, continues today to indicate a series of new (and old) questions.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Ermanno Calzolaio is Full Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Macerata.
Luigi Lacchè is Full Professor of Legal History at the University of Macerata and LUISS “G. Carli” in Rome.

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BOOK: Catherine PUIGELIER, Les grands procès: un territoire d’écriture, V Tomes (Paris: LGDJ, 2019). ISBN 978-2-84934-382-1, €27.00 (per volume)

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LGDJ has published a 5-volume work on famous lawsuits (“grands procès”) in history.  

ABOUT THE BOOK

Qu'est-ce qu'un grand procès ? Le temps ou l'espace influent-ils sur la qualité de grand procès ? L'histoire des grands procès (ou l'histoire de la justice) est un sujet passionnant mais en proie — au-delà de l'archive ou du document historique ou scientifique à un strict contrôle d'autres regards.

Il semble toutefois possible de distribuer l'histoire des grands procès en deux éléments principaux.

Il existe :

- d'une part, des grands procès dans l'histoire,

- d'autre part, une histoire dans les grands procès.

Ce bipartisme peut être lu à la lumière de la littérature. Une lecture essentielle dans les bouleversements de la mondialisation de la justice.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Catherine Puigelier est professeur à l'Université Paris Lumières (Paris VIII) et membre du Laboratoire de droit social de l'Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). Elle est responsable du Master 2 Droit médical et de la santé et coresponsable du Master Droit processuel de l'Université Paris Lumières (Paris VIII).

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YOUTUBE: Conference "Joseph-Marie Portalis (1778-1858): diplomate, magistrat et législateur" (Paris: Court of Cassation/Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas/Université Clermont-Auvergne/VUB, 13 DEC 2018)

The French Court of Cassation published the conference on Joseph-Marie Portalis (1778-1858), who was its president for 23 years (1829-1852) on Youtube. See videos above.

See earlier on this blog for the programme.

BOOK REVIEW: Alexander DENZLER, Über den Schriftalltag im 18. Jahrhundert. Die Visitation des Reichskammergerichts von 1767 bis 1776 [Norm und Struktur] (Köln: Böhlau)

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Anette Baumann (Giessen) reviewed Über den Schriftalltag im 18. Jahrhundert Die Visitation des Reichskammergerichts von 1767 bis 1776 [Norm und Struktur] (Köln: Böhlau) for the Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (2016).

See fulltext here.

Pascale ROBERT-DIARD, La part du juge (Paris: Arkhe Editions, 2017), ISBN 9782918682356, € 15,5

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Book abstract:

Qui a été confronté à la justice ou s'intéresse aux affaires judiciaires a parfois le sentiment d'une gigantesque loterie. D'un juge à un autre, d'un tribunal à une cour d'appel, l'appréciation des faits fait pencher la balance d'un côté ou de l'autre. Au fil des affaires de moeurs, d'endettement, d'animaux domestiques récalcitrants, de picrocholines querelles de voisinage ou de grands scandales publics, Pascale Robert-Diard déshabille les juges, avec ironie et légèreté. Elle révèle, à travers leurs dilemmes et leurs combats, la part insoupçonnée d'humanité de ces personnages emblématiques de la justice.Que les justiciables soient précaires, stars du football, du cinéma ou de la politique, Pascale Robert-Diard démontre l'existence d'une « part du juge », véritable marge d'imagination et de création. Plongez-vous dans cette série de chroniques mordantes : elles retracent l'évolution de la justice face aux moeurs et offrent un panorama inédit de la société française.

On the author:

 Journaliste aguerrie du Monde, et figure de proue du monde judiciaire, Pascale Robert-Diard a suivi les plus grandes affaires de justice de ces vingt dernières années. Sa connaissance des arcanes de la justice, la finesse de sa plume et son regard perspicace ont fait de ses articles des incontournables de la littérature judiciaire

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CONFERENCE & CFP: "Justice and judicial process. Evolution and development in the History of the law" (Murcia, November 29-30-December 1, 2017)

WHAT Justice and judicial process. Evolution and development in the History of the law, Conference & Call for papers

WHEN November 29-30-December 1, 2017

WHERE Murcia, Spain

Deadline for proposal is  September 15th, 2017, by e-mail to catedrainocencio@gmail.com

Each participant will have 20 minutes to give his communication. Presentations can be given in Spanish, English, French, Italian, German or Portuguese.

The following publication of the works presented to the Congress will be subject to a blind refereeing process and to the editorial norms of the Vergentis (vergentis.ucam.edu).