Editors:
- Offers a unique collection of comparative insights into the social role and function of civil courts
- Includes contributions of prominent legal scholars and practitioners from all globally important legal traditions
- Addresses the most topical concerns regarding the functioning and efficiency of national systems of civil justice
- Provides the best introductory overview of global justice systems and their role
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 34)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Synthesis
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Front Matter
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National Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 common trends and open issues. It brings together prominent experts, professionals and scholars from both civil and common law jurisdictions. It represents all main legal traditions ranging from Europe (Germanic and Romanic countries, Scandinavia, ex-Socialist countries) and Russia to the Americas (North and South) and China (Mainland and Hong Kong). While addressing the main issue – the goals of civil justice – the book discusses the most topical concerns regarding the functioning and efficiency of national systems of civil justice. These include concerns such as finding the appropriate balance between accurate fact-finding and the right to a fair trial within a reasonable time, the processing of hard cases and the function of civil justice as a specific public service. In the mosaic of contrasts and oppositions special place is devoted to the continuing battle between the individualistic/liberal approach and the collectivist/paternalistic approach – the battle in which, seemingly, paternalistic tendencies regain momentum in a number of contemporary justice systems.
Keywords
- American Exceptionalism
- Civil Justice Developments in Mainland China
- Civil Justice In South America
- Civil Justice in Common Law Tradition
- Civil Justice in Contemporary World
- Civil Justice in Germanic Tradition
- Civil Justice in Northern Europe
- Civil Justice in Pursuit of Efficiency and Budgetary Cuts
- Civil Justice in Socialist and Post-Socialist Countries
- Civil Justice in the Western Europe
- Context of Goals of Civil Justice
- Goals of Civil Justice
- Judicial Activism
- Promoting Social Harmony
- Three-dimensional Justice in Hong Kong
- Transitional Civil Justice
- civil justice
- comparative civil procedure
- comparative law
- court litigation
Editors and Affiliations
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Department for Civil Procedure, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Alan Uzelac
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in Contemporary Judicial Systems
Editors: Alan Uzelac
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03443-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03442-3Published: 22 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34770-7Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03443-0Published: 11 January 2014
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 263
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Civil Procedure Law, Political Science, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Fundamentals of Law