Global Solutions, Local Damages: A Critical Study in Judicial Councils in Central and Eastern Europe. Research Paper in Law 07/2013

This article examines why, how, and with what results have judicial councils spread under the influence of European institutions throughout Central and Eastern Europe in the course of the last twenty years. It first traces back how the judicial councils, themselves just one possible form of administration of courts, have emerged as the recommended universal solution Europe-wide and internationally. Second, it discusses how has this model been exported under the patronage of European and international institutions to transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Assessing, thirdly, the reality of the functioning of such new judicial councils in these countries, in particular in Slovakia and Hungary, with the Czech Republic without a judicial council providing a counter-example, it is suggested that their impact on further judicial and legal transition has been either questionable or outright disastrous. This brings, eventually, into question the legitimacy as well as the bare reasonableness of the entire process of European/international standards setting and their later marketing or in reality rather imposition onto the countries in transition.

The Judicial ‘Bail Out’ of the European Stability Mechanism: Comment on the Pringle Case. Research Paper in Law 09/2013

Since the beginning of the crisis, many responses have been taken to stabilise the European markets. Pringle is the awaited judicial response of the European Court of Justice on the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a crisis-related intergovernmental international institution which provides financial assistance to Member States in distress in the Eurozone. The judgment adopts a welcome and satisfactory approach on the establishment of the ESM. This article examines the feasibility of the ESM under the Treaty rules and in light of the Pringle judgment. For the first time, the Court was called to appraise the use of the simplified revision procedure under article 48 TEU with the introduction of a new paragraph to article 136 TFEU as well as to interpret the no bail out clause under article 125 TFEU. The final result is rather positive as the Court endorses the establishment of a stability mechanism of the ESM-kind beyond a strict reading of the Treaty rules. Pringle is the first landmark ECJ decision in which the Court has endorsed the use of new and flexible measures to guarantee financial assistance between Member States. This judgment could act as a springboard for more economic, financial and, possibly, political interconnections between Member States.

Judicial Selection, Lay Participation, and Judicial Culture in the Czech Republic: A Study in a Central European (Non)Transformation. College of Europe Research Paper in Law 03/2014

Introduction. The idea that “merit” should be the guiding principle of judicial selections is a universal principle, unlikely to be contested in whatever legal system. What differs considerably across legal cultures, however, is the way in which “merit” is defined. For deeper cultural and historical reasons, the current definition of “merit” in the process of judicial selections in the Czech Republic, at least in the way it is implemented in the institutional settings, is an odd mongrel. The old technocratic Austrian judicial heritage has in some aspects merged with, in others was altered or destroyed, by the Communist past. After 1989, some aspects of the judicial organisation were amended, with the most problematic elements removed. Furthermore, several old as well as new provisions relating to the judiciary were struck down by the Constitutional Court. However, apart from these rather haphazard interventions, there has been neither a sustained discussion as to how a new judicial architecture and system of judicial appointments ought to look like nor much of broader, conceptual reform in this regard. Thus, some twenty five years after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the guiding principles for judicial selection and appointments are still a debate to be had.

A treatise on the Anglo-American system of evidence in trials at common law : including the statutes and judicial decisions of all jurisdictions of the United States and Canada /

Accompanied by "A supplement 1923-1933" (xv, 1395 p., published in 1934)

The Indian law reports, containing cases determined by the High Court at Calcutta and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from that court and from all other courts in British India (except the Court of the Judicial Commissioner of Oude) not subject to any high court ..

Editors: C.E. Grey and B.D. Bose.

A dictionary of law : consisting of judicial definitions and explanations of words, phrases, and maxims, and an exposition of the principles of law : comprising a dictionary and compendium of American and English jurisprudence /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Oudh law journal : reports of cases decided by (1) the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Appeals from Oudh; (2) the Court of the Judicial Commissioner of Oudh; and (3) the Board of Revenue, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (Concerning Oudh)

Mode of access: Internet.

Binns's justice : Digest of the laws and judicial decisions of Pennsylvania, touching the authority and duties of justices of the peace: including all the required forms of process, docket entries, and fee bills ... The whole law in relation to landlord and tenant; insolvent debtors; elections; and fees: the general enactments of the inspection laws; militia laws; and many other laws: with an infinite variety of law forms ... /

The Magistrate's vocabulary of law terms and law phrases: p. 41-61.

A complete compilation of the laws of Minnesota : relating to township organization and the duties of town officers, embracing the tax law and laws relating to schools, including the laws in force to the close of the eleventh session of the legislature, 1869, with the appropriate forms and notes of judicial decisions.

Mode of access: Internet.

Digest of insurance cases, embracing all decisions in any manner affecting insurance companies or their contract upon whatever plan or for whatever purpose their business may be conducted, covering all United States courts, namely the United States Supreme Court, the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, and United States Circuit and District Courts--all courts of last resort and other appellate courts of the various states and territories and District of Columbia--all the highest judicial tribunals of all other English-speaking countries and all inferior courts within the foregoing jurisdictions whose decisions are reported--also reference to all annotations and leading articles on insurance in all law journals published in the English language.

Lettered on cover: Insurance digest.

The Indian law reports, containing cases determined by the High Court at Bombay, and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from the court.

Editors: L.J. Robertson.

Constitutional law. Being a collection of points arising upon the Constitution and jurisprudence of the United States, which have been settled, by judicial decision and practice.

Mode of access: Internet.

The officers' guide and farmers' manual, containing a comprehensive collection of judicial and business forms, adapted to the jurisprudence of Indiana, with an explanation of law phrases and techincal terms, both Latin and French; to which is prefixed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the U. States, and the Constitution of Indiana.

Mode of access: Internet.

The judicial chronicle, being a list of the judges of the courts of common law and Chancery in England and America, and of the contemporary reports, from the earliest period of the reports to the present time.

Author's preface signed: George Gibbs.

State expenditures for judicial and law enforcement purposes.

Mode of access: Internet.