Supreme Courts in Transition in China and the West

Professor Dr. C.H. (Remco) van Rhee from Maastricht University (Netherlands) specializes in comparative civil procedure and court organization. He is a member of the board of several scholarly journals and book series, and has published widely in the fields of comparative civil procedure and the history of civil procedure. He is the chair of one of the working groups of the European Law Institute and Unidroit in charge of drafting European Rules of Civil Procedure. Professor Dr. Yulin Fu from Peking University School of Law is a leading Chinese specialist in civil procedure, evidence, arbitration and dispute resolution. She is responsible for major publications in the field of Chinese and comparative civil procedure and has supervised the translation of important procedural works into Chinese. She served as a judge in the Wuhan Maritime Court and is an arbitrator at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee (CIETAC), the Beijing Arbitration Committee (BAC), the Wuhan Arbitration Commission and the Kazakhstan International Arbitration Center.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Van Rhee/Fu).- Chapter 2. The Supreme People’s Court of Mainland China (Fu).- Chapter 3. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (Andrews).- Chapter 4. Supreme Courts in the Nordic Countries (Oyrehagen Sunde).- Chapter 5.The Supreme Cassation Court of the Netherlands (Verkerk/Van Rhe).- Chapter 6.The Supreme Cassation Court of Spain (De Benito).- Chapter 7. Supreme Courts in the German Speaking Countries (Domej).- Chapter 8. The Supreme Cassation Court of Chile (Bravo Hurtado).- Chapter 9. The Cour de cassation of France (Ferrand).- Chapter 10. Supreme Courts in Croatia and Slovenia (Uzelac and Galič).- Chapter 11. The Corte di cassazione in Italy (Silvestri).