Supreme Courts Under Pressure

Pablo Bravo-Hurtado is associate professor of civil procedure at the Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV) in Chile and project director of the Centre of Law Artificial Intelligence and Technology of (PUCV). Bravo-Hurtado taught civil procedure and Chilean legal history at the Catholic University of Temuco (Chile) (2010–2013) and comparative civil procedure and European legal history at Maastricht University (Netherlands) (2014–2017), before being appointed at PUCV where he teaches civil procedure and artificial intelligence and law.C.H. (Remco) van Rhee is professor of European legal history and comparative civil procedure at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and director of the programme ‘Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure in Europe’ of the Ius Commune Research School. van Rhee taught Roman law at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) (1991-1994) and property and civil procedure at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) (1994–1998) before being appointed at Maastricht University to the chair of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure.

• Introduction.- Towards a Reform of the French Court of Cassation?.- Finding a Cure or Simply Relieving Symptoms? The Case of the Italian Supreme Court.- Back in Focus: Case Overload and Case Selection Standards in the Spanish Supreme Court.- Sharing Responsibility: The German Federal Court of Justice and the Civil Appellate System.- Access to the Austrian Oberster Gerichtshof: Attempts to Strike a Balance Between Adequate Workload and Adequate Review.- Croatia: Supreme Court between Individual Justice and System Management.- The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the Court of Appeal in England and Wales: Sharing the Appellate Load.- A Happy-Go-Lucky Story: The American Supreme Court and Overload Problems.- Case Selection and Writ of Certiorari in Argentina: ‘Transcendence’ as a Case-Selection Parameter at the Federal Supreme Court.