Civil Litigation and Modernization
The Work of the Municipal Courts of Bremen, Germany, in Five Centuries, 1549-1984
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4085668 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Wollschläger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-282 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053678 |
| OpenAlex | W2316487274 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
The article presents preliminary findings of a caseload study which covers preindustrial and industrial periods of judicial activity in Bremen, Germany. It discusses the historical comparability of the data and opposes evolutionary approaches in longitudinal research. Waves and exponential trends are examined as stable elements in the time series. Five historical periods of different growth patterns are distinguished. Higher litigation rates of previous times lead to the conclusion that modern society handles far more potential legal conflict with relatively less litigation than did society in earlier periods
Civil litigation · Modernization theory · Political science · Work (physics · Engineering · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
Reflections on the relative accessibility of law courts in early modern Europe
What is a “case”?
‘Migrating Seamen, Migrating Laws’
Litigation, credit, crisis
Access to Justice
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law
Building a Scientific Comparative Judicial Politics and Arousing the Dragons of Antiscientism
The Development of Comparative Judicial Politics
A Tapestry of Laws
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |