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  • List of Scotish Reports

    List of Reports from Scotland in Europe JC — High Court of Justiciary Cases HCJ — High Court of Justiciary Scot Parl Acts — The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland Sess Cas — Court of Session Cases Sess Cas(J) — High Court of Justiciary, Session Cases

  • List of North Ireland Reports

    List of North Ireland Reports in Europe Ir Jur— Irish Jurist Reports Ir LTR — Irish Law Times Reports Ir R — Irish Reports Ir RCL — Irish Reports, Common Law Series LR Ir — Law Reports, Ireland N Ir — Northern Ireland Law Reports N Ir Pub Gen Acts — Northern Ireland […]

  • Harmonisation in the European Union

    This may mean bringing national laws into line with one another, very often in order to remove national barriers that obstruct the free movement of workers, goods, services and capital. In other words, harmonisation means making sure that, on any particular issue for which the EU has […]

  • Maastricht criteria

    Maastricht criteria in Europe These are five criteria that determine whether an EU country is ready to adopt the euro. They relate to: Price stability: The inflation rate should be no more than 1.5 percentage points above the rate for the three EU countries with the lowest inflation over […]

  • Federalism in the European Union

    Broadly speaking, this means any system of government where several states form a unity and yet remain independent in their internal affairs. People who are in favour of this system are often called ‘federalists’. A number of countries around the world – e.g. Australia, Canada, Germany, […]

  • Sir George Farwell

    Sir George Farwell in Europe Sir George Farwell (1845-1915), English judge, was born at Codsall, Staffs., Dec. 22 1845. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1866. He was called to the bar in 1871. In 1891 he became a Q.C. and in 1895 a bencher of…

  • W. Willard Wirtz

    W. Willard Wirtz in Europe W. Willard Wirtz (March 14, 1912-April 24, 2010) graduated from Harvard Law School and is hired to teach by future Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. While at Northwestern University, he instructed another future Supreme Court justice: John Paul Stevens. […]

  • Arthur J. Goldberg

    Arthur J. Goldberg in Europe The son of immigrants, Arthur J. Goldberg (Aug. 8, 1908–Jan. 19, 1990) supervised an espionage group during World War II. He served as general counsel for the United Steelworkers of America and was the chief legal counsel for the AFL-CIO merger in 1955. As […]

  • History of Legal Treatises

    Collection categories and entries Conclusion Notes See Also About the Author/s and Rewiever/s Author: international

  • Legal Resources Index

    Legal Resources Index in Europe The Legal Resources Index is an online version of the print Current Law Index and the CD-ROM called LegalTrac. At the end of the 80´s, this law index was the second-generation index produced by Information Access Company, the publisher of Current Law Index. […]