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European Supreme Courts: A Portrait through History
Editors: Professor Remco van Rhee & Professor Alain Wijffels

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Third Millennium Information (TMI), the Publishers of The Conscience of Europe: Fifty Years of the European Court of Human Rights are proud to announce the publication of their next major legal history title in late 2011.

European Supreme Courts: A Portrait through History will be the culmination of more than three years research and writing work by a team of leading legal historians drawn from across the whole of Europe. The highly illustrated volume will explore in a lively and accessible way the largely forgotten tradition of European supreme courts structures which preceded and to some extent influenced the international supreme and supranational courts we know today.

Supra-national supreme courts existed in various parts of Europe from the late medieval period well into the age of Napoleon and in some cases beyond, often exercising an authority that transcended modern-day political and linguistic frontiers. Such structures were serviced by a legal community which was at times surprisingly European in outlook and education.

The book ranges in scope from medieval Scotland to the late Ottoman Empire; from the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania to the Hapsburg dominions in the Low Countries, from the medieval Papacy in Rome to nineteenth-century England and post-Napoleonic France. In summary, it explores the history of supreme courts in Europe with unparalleled breadth of geographical coverage and historical depth. However, the objective is not simply to recount legal history. The historical story is told in the context of the present-day central European Courts, each of which receives special chapter treatment in the book.

European Supreme Courts: A Portrait through History will be beautifully illustrated with images from archives and collections from across Europe, as well as images of present day European courts, national courts and institutions, historical buildings and other related artefacts.

European Supreme Courts: A Portrait through History is a book which every discerning judge and lawyer will wish to own.

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