Batic Law and Culture in the Mirror of the Latvian Supreme Court Decisions 1918-1940
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YEAR:
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1976
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Conference Paper
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Law, legal cases, case law, caselaw, Latvia, Baltic, Supreme Court of Latvia, Senāts, society, culture, court decisions, courts, judiciary, U.S. Supreme Court, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurists, jurisprudence, rule of law, Europe, Loeber, Kaulins, Baltic scholarship, Soviet Latvia
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Law
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http://www.andiskaulins.com/publications/balticlawandculture/balticlawandculture.htm
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-422-329
(Last edited on
2005/12/20 12:43:26 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
[This abstract is taken from the AABS publication "Summaries of Papers" of the conference held at Columbia University, May 20-23, 1976]
Professor Dietrich Loeber of the Institute for the Study of Law, Politics and Society of the Socialist Countries at Kiel University and I have recently completed the task of assembling what we believe to be the only complete existing collection of all decisions of the Latvian Supreme Court published officially during the period of its existence (1918-1940). This material comprises approximately 4800 individual cases and totals approximately 6000 pages [of very small print]. The sheer volume of the material is somewhat formidable, but what is important is that these decisions are replete with a variety of information concerning all aspects of Latvian and Baltic society. Of course, this wealth of information should not be a surprise to us. As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a famous American jurist, once stated, the "living law" is part of the essential fabric of society and usualy mirrors accurately its innermost characteristics, problems, successes and failures. Indeed, as, for example, studies of the U.S. Supreme Court show, most fundamental cultural, social and political issues ultimately filter to the highest judiciary. Therefore, we initiated our work in the belief that careful study of this material could reap rich rewards for Baltic scholarship, especially in view of the fact that no work has been published on this material since World War II, either in the Western world or in Soviet Latvia.
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