Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in Contemporary Judicial Systems

Part I. General Synthesis

1. Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in the Contemporary World
Alan Uzelac

Part II. National Perspectives

2. Civil Justice in Austrian-German Tradition
Christian Koller

3. Civil Justice in Pursuit of Efficiency
C. H. (Remco) Rhee

4. Goals of Civil Justice When Nothing Works: The Case of Italy
Elisabetta Silvestri

5. Goals of Civil Justice in Norway: Readiness for a Pragmatic Reform
Inge Lorange Backer

6. ‘American Exceptionalism’ in Goals for Civil Litigation
Richard Marcus

7. Civil Justice with Multiple Objectives
Peter C. H. Chan, David Chan

8. Social Harmony at the Cost of Trust Crisis: Goals of Civil Justice in China
Fu Yulin

9. Civil Litigation in Russia: ‘Guided Justice’ and Revival of Public Interest
Dmitry Heroldovich Nokhrin

10. Battle Between Individual Rights and Public Interest in Hungarian Civil Procedure
Miklós Kengyel, Gergely Czoboly

11. (In)compatibility of Procedural Preclusions with the Goals of Civil Justice: An Ongoing Debate in Slovenia
Aleš Galič

12. Judicial Activism as Goals Setting – Civil Justice in Brazil
Teresa Arruda Alvim Wambier

Keywords: Law, Civil Procedure Law, Political Science, general, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Fundamentals of Law