Právněhistorické studie / Legal History Studies (Charles University journal; below referred to as PHS or Journal) is a scientific journal listed in the international prestigious database SCOPUS. The journal is published by Charles University in Prague under the guarantee of the Department of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University. It is published by the Karolinum Press. The journal focuses on the field of legal history and related topics.
Issue 1 of the Journal was published by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Publishing in June 1955. The Journal was initially published by the Cabinet of Legal History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science (CSAV), later by the Institute of State and Law (CSAV) and then by the Institute of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University.
PHS is issued three times a year in April, August, and December and it presents original scientific works/papers as well as reviews, annotations and news from the scientific field of legal history. It also introduces annotated texts of a legal history nature. PHS accepts manuscripts from domestic as well as foreign authors. Manuscripts submitted by foreign authors are published in original language, namely in English, Slovak, German, French, Italian or Polish.
PHS (ISSN 0079-4929) is registered in the Czech national ISSN centre (supervised by the State Technical Library). The Journal is registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic according to Act No. 46/2000 Sb., on Rights and Liabilities for the Publishing of Periodicals and Change of Some Acts (Press Act), and it is allocated with registration number of periodical press MK E 18813.
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PRÁVNĚHISTORICKÉ STUDIE, Vol 47 No 2 (2017), 51–61
Historie publikace soudních rozhodnutí ve Spojených státech
[History of case law publication in the USA]
Lukáš Králík
published online: 21. 02. 2018
abstract
From a comparative point of view, we can find similiar basic approaches to the publication of judicial decisions in the American and the Czech legal culture. Adversaly, access to the publication of the case law in the United States is characterized by fundamentally different elements and conditions typical for the common law system The principles of edited court decisions with new added relevant legal informations have arisen also from the strong position of private publishing companies. Rather complicated system of federal, specialized and state courts have formed this tradition concurrently. The system of state or private case law reports in the USA has been established in late 18th century with one regular collection published under official auspices, but the system designed by private publishers had been prevailing. Thus, we can confirm the original thesis that this system is one of the oldest and, at the same time, probably the first modern form of judicial publication. The editions of case law reports of the Supreme Federal Court predominantly formed the substantial mass of American judicature. Reporters of the supreme state courts of the Union and specialized federal courts comprise the other part of case law publication system in the USA.
Historie publikace soudních rozhodnutí ve Spojených státech is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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ISSN: 0079-4929
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