Special Courts for Conflicts Cases: A German Experiment

Siehr, Kurt

doi:10.2307/839932

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“…Unlike most state courts in Germany, federal courts usually decide through judicial panels, which are referred to as "senates" (but more properly translated as "divisions," following Siehr 1977;Meador 1981:n. 25) and consist of five or more judges. Each division has jurisdiction over a specified set of subject matters (Zusta ¨ndigkeiten, competencies).…”

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“…The mechanisms of subject matter organization in the German judiciary have long been of interest to comparative law scholars in the United States. Case allocation plans were extensively described and analyzed over the last 40 years in U.S. legal literature (Siehr :672; Meador :44–49; Clark :1838; Dammann :539; Lichtmanegger ), with at least one such plan fully translated and appended to a thorough analysis of “The German Design” of judicial subject matter organization (Jewell ).…”

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The German Federal Courts Dataset 1950–2019: From Paper Archives to Linked Open Data

Hamann¹

2019

J Empirical Legal Studies

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Various reasons explain why Europe lags behind the United States in empirical legal studies. One of them is a scarcity of available data on judicial decision making, even at the highest levels of adjudication. By institutional design, civil-law judges have lower personal profiles than their common-law counterparts. Hence very few empirical data are available on how courts are composed and how that composition changes over time. The present project remedies that by easing access to such data and lowering the threshold for empirical studies on judicial behavior. This paper introduces the German Federal Courts Dataset (GFCD) as a resource for empirical legal scholars, with the objective of inspiring more European lawyers to engage with empirical aspects of civil-law adjudication. To that end, several thousand pages of German court documentation were digitized, transcribed into machine-readable tables (ready to be imported into statistics software), and published online (www.richter-im-internet.de). To simultaneously explore innovative ways of sharing public-domain datasets, the data were modeled as linked open data and imported into the Wikidata repository for use in any computational application.

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Section: B Background: the German Federal Judiciarymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%