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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511728803321

Autore

Müssig Ulrike

Titolo

Reason and fairness : constituting justice in Europe, from Medieval Canon Law to ECHR / / By Ulrike Müssig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill Nijhoff, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-39372-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (676 pages)

Collana

Legal history library ; ; 27

Disciplina

346.4

Soggetti

Justice, Administration of - Europe - History

Law - Europe - History

Canon law - Europe - History

Human rights - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Foreword -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Legal History -- Church -- France -- England -- Germany -- Country Reports: The Contemporary French and British Court System -- Core Patterns of Ordinary Judiciary, Representative throughout the European Union -- Protective Rationale of Ordinary Competence: the Court External Sphere -- Protective Rationale of Objective, General Standards: the Court Internal Sphere -- The Historic Comparison as Line of Arguments for the European Convention -- Legal History ‘in Front of Court’ -- Legal History as Mentor of Present and Future -- The Idea of Justness behind Ordinary Judicial Competences -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout Europe, the exercise of justice rests on judicial independence by impartiality. In Reason and Fairness Ulrike Müßig reveals the combination of ordinary judicial competences with procedural rationality, together with the complementarity of procedural and substantive justice, as the foundation for the ‘rule of law’ in court constitution, far earlier than the advent of liberal constitutionalism. The ECHR fair trial guarantee reads as the historically-grown consensus of the functional judicial independence. Both before historical and



contemporary courts, justice is done and seen to be done by means of judgements, whose legal requirements combine the equation of ‘fair’ and ‘legal’ with that of ‘legal’ and ‘rational.’ This legal determinability of the judge’s fair attitude amounts to the specific (rational) European idea of justice.