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Jörg Paul Müller, born on 16 September 1938 in St. Gallen, has prosecuted his legal and sociological studies at the Universities of Geneva and Berne, before directing himself to the Harvard Law School, where he graduated with a Master of Law degree.

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Table of content Globalization

1.    Introduction

1.1    Purposes of the part on the Globalization and its relationship to the parts of Europeanization and Americanization of Swiss law and legal culture

1.2    Swiss law and legal culture faced with the new phase of globalization beyond Europeanization and Americanization

1.3    “To take it global” shows a new legal mindset to observe and analyse the “travels“ and “impacts” of the legal process of globalization on Swiss law and Swiss legal culture – a globalization – adequate mindset

1.4    Types and Examples of “travels” and “impacts” of the legal process of globalization on Swiss law and legal culture

1.5    Characteristics and peculiarities of the dealing with the “travels” and “impacts” of the legal process of Globalization in Switzerland

1.6    Characteristics and peculiarities of the selection of the texts and of authors in the Anthology writing on the process of Globalization of Swiss law and legal culture

2.    Texts

A.     A cultural exchange and encounter – “travels” and “impacts” of Swiss legal culture on the legal process of globalization

2.1    Pierre Tercier, Le rayonnement international du droit Suisse, Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, 1999, p. 1-9
[The international radiation of Swiss law]

2.2    Max Rheinstein, Types of Reception, in Max Rheinstein, Gesammelte Werke – Collected Works, Vol. 1, Rechtstheorie und Soziologie, Rechts-vergleichung und Common Law (USA), p. 261-268 (a comment written after the meeting of the International Association of Legal Science held in Istanbul, September 1966 on the issues of the reception of the Swiss Civil Code in Turkey 1926, first published in Annales de la faculté de droit d’Istanbul (1956), p. 31-40

2.3    Jens Drolshammer/Nedim Vogt, English as the Language of Law?, An Essay on the Legal Lingua Franca of a Shrinking World, Zurich, Basle, Geneva 2008; excerpt: VI The international impact of Swiss law, p. 28-31

2.4    Marc Blessing, Introduction to Arbitration – Swiss and international perspectives, Basle, 1999, excerpt: II Swiss Traditions and legal culture, p. 63-66

2.5    Peter Nobel, Das schweizerische Recht vor den Herausforderungen des internationalen Rechts- Bank- und Finanzmarktrecht, excerpt: B, Zweiter Teil; Die wesentlichen Institutionen, Elemente und Ergebnisse der Internationalisierung, I Internationale Institutionen in der Schweiz, in Schweizerischer Juristentag 2012, Das Schweizerische Recht vor der Herausforderung des internationalen Rechts, Zeitschrift für Schweizeri-sches Recht, 2012, Heft 2, p. 199-213
[International institutions in banking and financial market law in Switzerland]

2.6    Carl Baudenbacher, Swiss Economic Law Facing the challenges of International and European Law, excerpt G: Contributions of Swiss Law to Foreign, International and European Law, in Schweizerischer Juristen-tag 2012, Das Schweizerische Recht vor der Herausforderung des internationalen Rechts, Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, 2012, Heft 2, p. 646-660

2.7    Raymond R. Probst, “Good offices”; in the light of Swiss international practice and experience, Dordrecht/Boston/London, 1989; excerpt: Chapter III, “Good offices”: The Swiss experience, p. 17-70

B.     A cultural exchange and encounter – “travels” and “impacts” of the legal process of globalization on Swiss legal culture

a)    general impacts and challenges in legal practice, legal education and legal research

2.8    Thomas Cottier, Die Globalisierung des Rechts – Herausforderungen für Praxis, Ausbildung und Forschung, Zeitschrift des Bernischen Juristen-vereins, 1997 p. 217-236
[Globalization of Law – Challanges for Practice, Education and Research]

2.9    Daniel Thürer, Die Bundesverfassung von 1848: Kristallisationspunkt einer Staatsidee; Drei Paradoxe und die Frage ihrer Bedeutung für die Fortentwicklung der Verfassungskonzeption im Zeitalter der „Globalisie-rung“, in: Daniel Thürer, Perspektive Schweiz, übergreifendes Verfas-sungsdenken als Herausforderung, Zürich 1998, p. 15-34
[The Federal Constitution of 1848: Point of crystallization of an idea of government; three paradoxes and the question of its significance for the further development of the conception of constitution in times of “globalization”]

2.10    Hans-Ueli Vogt, § 7 Das Recht in der Globalisierung, excerpt: In Konvergenz von Gesellschaftsrechten, ein rechtsvergleichender Befund und seine rechtssoziologische und rechtstheoretische Erklärung im Lichte der Globalisierung, Zurich/St. Gallen 2012, p. 282-308
[Law in Globalization]

b)    impacts on Swiss governmental structures by the constitution-alisation of international law

2.11    Thomas Cottier, The Constitutionalism of International Economic Law, in: Karl M. Meesen, (ed., in cooperation with Marc Bungenberg and Adelheid Puttler), Economic Law as an Economic Good, Its Rule Function and its Tool Function in the Competition of Systems, Munich 2009, p. 317-333

c)    impacts on Swiss legal science

2.12    Jens Drolshammer, Wird die Globalisierung selbst zu einem Forschungsfeld?, in Verlangt die Globalisierung eine Neuausrichtung der Forschung? Beispiele von Forschungsfeldern in Recht und Management aus Sicht des Internationalen Lawyers, in Jens Drolshammer A Timely Turn to the International Lawyer? – Globalisierung und die Anglo-Amerikanisierung von Recht und Rechtsberufen – Essays. Zurich/Baden-Baden, 2009, p. 432- 437
[Is Globalization itself becoming a field of research?]

2.13     Thomas Cottier, Challenges ahead in International Economic Law, Journal of International Economic Law, 2009, p. 1-13

d)    impacts on Swiss legal professions

2.14    Peter L. Murray /Jens Drolshammer, The Education and Training of a New International Lawyer, in the Internationalization of the Practice of Law, Jens Drolshammer/Michael Pfeifer ed., Kluwer Law International, The Hague London/Boston, 2001, p. 289-328

2.15    Jens Drolshammer, A College of International Lawyers in a Networked Society? The Need for Conceptualisation of the New International Lawyer from a Global Perspective, in Jens Drolshammer, A timely Turn to the Lawyer? – Globalisierung und die Anglo-Amerikanisierung von Recht und Rechtsberufen – Essays, Zurich / Baden-Baden, 2009 p. 601-632; first published in Reflections on the International Practice of Law, Liber Amicorum for 35th Anniversary of Bär & Karrer, 2004.

e)    Impacts on Swiss legalisation

2.16    Heinrich Koller, Globalisierung und Internationalisierung des Wirtschaftsrechts – Auswirkung auf die nationale Gesetzgebung, Referate und Mitteilungen des schweizerischen Juristen Vereins, Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, 2000, p. 313-360
[Globalization and Internationalization of Swiss economic law – The effects on national legislation]

f)    globalisation and the law of information

2.17    Jean Nicolas Druey, Das Verhältnis von Information und Recht, excerpt: 1. Teil, 2. Kapitel in Information als Gegenstand des Rechts, Zurich/ Baden-Baden 1995, p. 437-444
[The relationship between information and law]

2.18    Herbert Burkert, Information Law: From Discipline to Method, in a special series of the Berkman Center of Society and Cyber Law, Harvard University, 2014 (to be published)

2.19    John Palfrey and Urs Gasser, excerpts: Solving for Interop, Architectures of the Future: Building a Better World and Conclusion: The Pay off of Interop as Theory, in Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Intercon-nected Systems, New York, 2012, p. 231-262

2.20    Thomas Cottier, The Impact from Without: International Law and the Structure of Federal Government in Switzerland, in Peter Knoepfel, Wolf Linder (ed.), Verwaltung Regierung und Verfassung im Wandel, Gedächt-nisschrift für Raimund Germann, Basle, Geneva, Munich, 2000 S. 213-230, reprinted in Thomas Cottier, The Challenge of WTO Law, Collected Essays, London, 2007, p. 371-390

3.    Bibliographical references

4.    Biographies of authors

 

Table of content Americanization

1.    Introduction

1.1    Purposes of the part on Americanization and the relationship to the parts of Europeanization and Globalization of Swiss law and legal culture

1.2    Swiss law and legal culture faced with the trend to Americanization after World War II – Elements and causes of the accelerated change – from Pax Americana to Lex Americana and beyond?

1.3    Relevance of the accelerated trend to Americanization after World War II for Swiss law and legal culture

1.4    Milestones of “travels” and “impacts” of American Law on Swiss law and legal culture

1.5    Types and Examples of “travels” and “impacts” of American Law on Swiss law and legal culture

1.6    Lex Americana? –  considerations on the diversity and specificity of the “travels” and “impacts” of American law on Swiss law and legal culture after World War II

1.7    Characteristics and peculiarities of dealing with the process of Americanization of Swiss law and legal culture in Switzerland

1.8    Characteristics and peculiarities of the selection of texts and of authors dealing with process of Americanization of Swiss law and legal culture in Switzerland

2.    Texts

A.    A cultural exchange and encounter – “travels” and “impacts” of Swiss legal culture on the legal culture of the United States
a)    impacts and radiation on the legal culture of the United States from the American Revolution to the founding of modern Switzerland in 1848

2.1    James H. Hutson, Swiss and the American Revolution, excerpt, in The Sister Republics, Switzerland and the United States from 1776 to the Present, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1991, p.13 – 23

2.2    Paul Widmer, Der Einfluss der Schweiz auf die amerikanische Verfassung von 1787, in Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 1988, S.359-389
[The Influence of Switzerland on the American Constitution of 1787]

2.3    The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, excerpt: The Federalist, No. 19: James Madison (with the assistance of Alexander Hamilton), Bantam Classic edition, reissue 2003, New York, p. 106-112

2.4    The Antifederalist, writing by the opponents of the Constitution, ed Herbert J. Storing, Chicago and London 1981, excerpt: A Farmer, 28. March 1788, p. 265-272

2.5    James H. Hutson, Swiss and the American Constitution, excerpt, in The Sister Republics, Switzerland and the United States, from 1776 to the Present, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1991, p. 24 – 31

2.6    Albert Gallatin, Memorandum on Louisiana Purchase (1803), in Melvin I. Urofsky/ Paul Finkelman, Documents of American Constitutional History, volume I, 2002, p. 162-165

2.7    Gordon A. Craig, The Economic Takeoff, excerpt, in The Triumph of Liberalism, Zurich in the Golden Age 1830 – 1869, New York – London, 1988, p.95 – 120

b)    Impacts and radiation on the legal culture of the United States before and after the Civil War

2.8    District Court, N.D. California, UNITED STATES V: SUTTER; June 10th 1861 (Westlaw, Hoff. Dec. 27, 27FOO8.1368 and Supreme Court of the United States No. 258, The United States, Appellants vs John A. Sutter – Appeal from the District Court U.S. for the Northern District of California (Westlaw.69US.562.1864WL6589 (U.S.Cal.)

2.9    Johann August Sutter, excerpts, Die Besitznahme des Landes durch die Vereinigten Staaten, Der Bau der Mühlen und die Entdeckung des Goldes, Das Goldfieber, Der Zusammenbruch, in Neu-Helvetien, Lebenserinne-rungen des Generals Johann August Sutter, transcribed and edited by Erwin E. Gudde, Frauenfeld und Leipzig, 1934, p.83-110
[Transcribed memoirs of Johann August Sutter, excerpts on taking of possession by the United States, the construction of the mills and the discovery of gold, the goldfever in the goldrush, and the collaps]

2.10    Blaise Cendrars, in Gold: The Marvellous History of General John August Sutter,  chapters 6, para 25, and chapters 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16, 1925, translated from the French, L’Or, ou la merveilleuse histoire du Genéral Johann August Sutter, Edition Denoel, Paris, 1947, 1961, 2001, translation first published 1982, p. 71 – 128

2.11    Stefan Zweig, The Discovery of Eldorado – J. A. Sutter, California, January 1848, in Decisive Moments in History, Twelve Historical Minia-tures, Arlachne Press, 1999, german original text first published in Leipzig 1927, Die Entdeckung Eldorados – J. A. Sutter, Kalifornien, Januar 1848 in Sternstunden der Menschheit, Leipzig 1927, first published as “Film eines phantastischen Lebens“ Johann August Sutter on April 25th 1926 in the Neue Freie Presse, Vienna

2.12    James Hutson, Swiss and the American Civil War, excerpt, in The Sister Republics, Switzerland and the United States from 1776 to the Present, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1991, p. 42 – 50

2.13    Heinz K. Meier, The Period of the Civil War, excerpt, in The United States and Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, The Hague, 1963, p.70-91

2.14    Alan Dershowitz, excerpts, Introduction Part V, The Civil War, and The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz in America on Trial, Inside the Legal Battles that Transformed our Nation, New York, Boston, 2004, p.133 – 138 and p. 146 – 151

2.15    The Court Martial of Henri Wirz – General Court Martial orders No 607 – Executive Mansion November 3, 1865 – Court Martial of Henri Wirz Charges and Specifications (www.civilwarhome.com/ch- argesandspeci-fictions/htm) – Finding of the Court (civilwarhome.com/findingofcourt.htm) – (www.civilwarhome.com/ wirzcourtmartial)

c)     Impacts and radiation on the legal culture of the United States before and after the turn of the 20th century

2.16    James H. Hutson, Swiss-American Peacemaking: The Alabama Affair and the League of Nations, excerpt, in The Sister Republics, Switzerland and the United States, from 1776 to the Present, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1991, p. 51 – 57

2.17    William E. Rappard, The Initiative, Referendum and Recall in Switzerland, in William E. Rappard: Varia Politica, publiés ou réimprimés à l’occasion du soixante-dixième anniversaire de William E. Rappard Zürich 1953, p. 121-155

2.18    James H. Hutson, Swiss and American States Constitutions, excerpt, in The Sister Republics, Switzerland and the United States from 1776 to the Present, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1991, p. 58 – 65

2.19    Heinz K. Meier, Rappard, Wilson and the League of Nations, excerpt, in Friendship under Stress, US – Swiss Relations 1900 – 1950, Berne, 1970, p. 107 – 123

2.20    Raymond R. Probst, “Good offices”; in The light of Swiss international practice and experience, Dordrecht/Boston/London, 1989; excerpt: Chapter III, “Good offices”: The Swiss experience, p. 17-70

2.21    Louis Menand, excerpt, Agassiz, p. 97 – 116 and Brazil, p 116 – 148 in The Metaphysical Club – A story of ideas in America, New York, 2001

2.22    Stephen Jay Gould, Louis Agassiz, – America’s theorist of polygeny, excerpt, in the Mismeasure of Man, revised and expanded, New York, 1980, 1996, p. 74 – 82

2.23    Interpellation 07.3486, Louis Agassiz vom Sockel holen und dem Sklaven Renty die Würde zurückgeben, eingereicht am 22. Juni 2007 und Antwort des Bundesrats vom 12. September 2007
[Parliamentary interpellation by a member of the house of representatives requesting a judgement of the Federal Council on alleged contents of racism in Louis Agassiz publications and requesting the renaming of the mountain peak Piz Agassiz to “Rentyhorn”, Renty being a slave of which Louis Agassiz allegedly used a photograph as a “scientific proof” on the inferiority of the “black race”]

d)    observations and perception of Swiss law and legal culture by non-Swiss authors

2.24    Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, edited by J.P Mayer, 1994, excerpt: What distinguishes the Federal Constitution of the United States of America from another Federal Constitution, p. 155-157

2.25    Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, edited by J.P Mayer, 1994; excerpt: Appendix II Report given before the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on January 15, 1848 on the subject of M. Cherbuliez Book entitled On Democracy in Switzerland, p. 736-749

e)    impacts of institutions and traditions of Swiss law and legal culture on American social sciences

2.26    Karl W. Deutsch, Die Schweiz als ein paradigmatischer Fall politischer Integration, Bern, 1976, p. 8-64, geringfügig überarbeitete Abschrift der Tonband-Aufzeichnung von Daniel Frei des von Karl Deutsch in der Schweiz in deutscher Sprache gehaltenen Vortrages
[Switzerland as a paradigmatic case of political integration]

B.     A cultural exchange and encounter – “travels” and “impacts” of US legal culture on the legal culture of Switzerland
a)    impacts and radiation on the legal culture of Switzerland from the American States Constitution to the Civil War

2.27    William Rappard, Pennsylvania and Switzerland; the Americanisation of the Swiss Constitution, 1848 in Varia Politica, publiés ou réinprimés à l’occasion du soixante-dixième anniversaire de William E. Rappard, Zurich, 1953 p. 316-338

2.28    James H. Hutson, Americans and the Swiss constitution of 1848, excerpt, in The Sister Republics, Switzerland and the United States from 1776 to the Present, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1991, p. 32 – 41

2.29    Alfred Kölz, Neuere Schweizerische Verfassungsgeschichte, Ihre Grundlinien vom Ende der alten Eidgenossenschaft bis 1848, Berne 1992; excerpt: 8. Forderungen nach geschriebener Verfassung, Verfassungsän-derung und Verfassungsrat, p. 54-57
[Claims for a written Constitution, constitutional amendments and constitutional conventions]

2.30    Alfred Kölz, Neuere Schweizerische Verfassungsgeschichte, Ihre Grundlinien vom Ende der alten Eidgenossenschaft bis 1848, Berne 2004; excerpt: 28. Kapitel, Staatsideen aus dem „atlantischen“ Raum, p. 919-920
[Ideas of government originating in the “atlantic” area]

b)    Impacts and radiation on the legal culture of Switzerland from the Civil War to the turn of the 20th century

2.31    Johann Jakob Rüttimann, Vorrede, excerpt, in Das nordamerikanische Bundesstaatsrecht verglichen mit den politischen Einrichtungen der Schweiz, Zurich, 1867, p. IV – VIII
[Words of introduction to a monograph comparing the north American and Swiss constitutional law]

2.32    Emilie Kempin-Spiry, Die Rechtsquellen der Gliedstaaten und Territorien der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika: Mit vornehmlicher Berücksichti-gung des bürgerlichen Rechts, Zurich, 1892, reprinted 2013, 78 pages
[The sources of law in the States and the Territories of the United States of America, with specific reference to civil law]

2.33    Eveline Hasler, excerpts, in Flying with WIngs of Wax – A biographical novel, The Story of Emily Kempin-Spyri, translated and published 1993, New York, originally published in German, Die Wachsflügelfrau, Zürich, 1991

c)    impacts and radiation on Swiss law and legal culture after World War II

2.34    Wolfgang Wiegand, Die Rezeption des amerikanischen Rechts, in Die schweizerische Rechtsordnung in ihren internationalen Bezügen, Festschrift zum Juristentag 1988, Bern 1988, p. 229-262
[The reception of American law]

2.35    Jens Drolshammer, excerpt: The Role and the Tendencies of Americanization for Legal Systems, Legal Professions and Legal Educations in the Area of the International Practice of Law, in The Effects of Globalization on Legal Education, Zurich, 2003, p.1 – 63

2.36    Regina Kiener/ Raphael Lanz, Amerikanisierung des schweizerischen Rechts – und ihre Grenzen, „Adversarial Legalism“ und schweizerische Rechtsordnung, Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, Band 119, 2000, I. Halbband, Heft 2, S. 155-174
[Americanization of Swiss law – and its limits; “Adversarial Legalism” and Swiss law]

d)      impacts on Swiss business law

2.37    Peter Böckli, Osmosis of Anglo-Saxon Concepts in Swiss Business Law, in The  International Practice of Law, Liber Amicorum für Thomas Bär und Robert Karrer, ed. Nedim Vogt et al., Basle, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 9-29

e)    impacts on Swiss legislation

2.38    Heinrich Koller, Die Amerikanisierung des Schweizerischen Rechts – Beispiele aus der Gesetzgebung, in Jens Drolshammer, „From the Horse’s Mouth“ – Rechtsberufe am Wind der Amerikanisierung: Betrof-fenheit und Umgang mit der amerikanischen Rechtskultur durch Leiter von Rechtsabteilungen schweizerischer multinationaler Unternehmungen, durch international tätige Rechtsanwälte, Verwaltungs- und Regulie-rungsbehörden sowie durch Gerichte in der Schweiz und Europa, 2007/2008, in Jens Drolshammer, A Timely Turn to the Lawyer?, Globali-sierung und die Anglo-Amerikanisierung von Recht und Rechtsberufen – Essays. Zurich/Baden-Baden, 2009, p. 215 – 22
[Americanization of Swiss law – examples from legislation]

f)    impacts on Swiss courts

2.39    Heinz Aemisegger, Die Bedeutung des US-amerikanischen Rechts bzw. der Rechtskultur des common law in der Praxis schweizerischer Gerichte – am Beispiel des Bundesgerichts, Archiv für Juristische Praxis, 2008, p. 18-30
[The significance of US-American law and legal culture of the common law in the practice of Swiss courts – The example of the Swiss Federal Tribunal]

g)    impacts on Swiss legal science

2.40    Peter Nobel, Wirtschaftsrecht?, in Wirtschaft in Theorie und Praxis, Festschrift für Roland von Büren, ed. Peter V. Kunz, Dorothea Herren, Thomas Cottier, René Matteotti, Basle, 2009, p. 973-992
[Economic Law?]

2.41     Peter Saladin, 1. Kapitel: Die Religionsfreiheit, excerpt in Grundrechte im Wandel, Die Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichts in einer sich wandeln-den Welt, Berne, 3. Auf., 1982, p. 2-21
[freedom of religion, evolving fundamental rights in the judgments of the Swiss Federal Tribunal]

h)    impacts on Swiss legal professions

2.42    Jens Drolshammer, The Global Groove of the Harvard Yard – Personal aspects of the person in the Globalisation and the Anglo-Americanisation of law and legal professions, in Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, 2009, p. 317-352

2.43    Jens Drolshammer, Zur Situationalität der Unternehmensjuristen als International Lawyers im Spannungsfeld von Globalisierung und Anglo-Amerikanisierung, in In-House-Counsel in internationalen Unternehmen, ed. S. Hambloch-Gesinn, Beat Hess, Andreas L. Meier, Reto Schiltknecht, Christian Wind, Basle 2010, p. 263-279
[The situationality of the enterprise lawyer as international lawyer in the tension between globalization and anglo-americanization]

i)    Neutrality, Morality and the Holocaust – “case” study

2.44    Daniel Frei, Das Washingtoner Abkommen von 1946: Ein Beitrag der schweizerischen Aussenpolitik zwischen dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und dem Kalten Krieg, in Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Band 19 (1969), Heft 3, p. 567 – 619, link http://retro.seals.ch/openurl?rft.issn=0036-7834&rft.date=1969&lPage=567&PDFRequested=true
[The Washington Accord of 1946]

2.45    Dietrich Schindler, Neutrality and Morality; Developments in Switzerland and in the International Community, in American University International Law Review, Volume 14, 1998, p. 155 – 170

2.46    Detlev Vagts, Editorial Comment, Switzerland, International Law and World War II, in American Journal of International Law, 1997, S. 466-475

2.47    Stuart E. Eizenstat, Foreword; Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Special Envoy of the Department of State on Property Restitution in Central and Eastern Europe, U.S. and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or  Hidden by Germany During World War II, Prepared by William Slany, The Historian, Department of State with the Participation of various Departments and Federal Agencies, May 1997, p. III – XII

2.48    Detlev Vagts, Jens Drolshammer and Peter Murray, Mit Prozessieren den Holocaust bewältigen? Die Rolle des Zivilrechts und Zivilprozesses beim Versuch der Wiedergutmachung internationaler Katastrophen, in: Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht (ZSR) Vol. 118, 1999, p. 511-528.
[Litigating the Holocaust?- the role of civil law and civil procedure in attempting to redress international calamities]

2.49     Thomas Maissen, V Worum ging es?, excerpt from Verweigerte Erinnerung, Nachrichtenlose Vermögen und die Schweizer Weltkriegsde-batte 1989-2004, Zurich, p. 645 – 662
[the crux of the debates on dormant accounts in Switzerland ]

j)    impacts on Swiss law in conflicts of jurisdictions with the United States – case study- the UBS case as an example

2.50    CASE NO: 09-20423-CIV-Gold / MCALILEY / United States of America Petitioner vs. UBS AG, Respondent / Amicus Brief of Government of Switzerland, 2009 and CASE NO: 09-20423-CIV-Gold / MCALILEY / United States of America Petitioner vs. UBS AG, Respondent / Amicus Govern-ment of Switzerland to Petitioner’s, June 3 Submission, 30 pages

2.51    Thomas Cottier / René Matteotti, The Treaty Request Agreement between the Swiss Confederation and the United States of America of August 19, 2009 (UBS-Agreement): Principles and Domestic Applicability, Legal opinion for the Federal Office of Justice of Switzerland, in Archiv für Schweizerisches Abgaberecht, December 2009 – January 2012, p. 349 – 402

2.52     Xavier Oberson, Récents développements dans le droit de l’assistance internationale en matière fiscale, notamment avec les Etats-Unis: sept leçons à tirer de « l’affaire UBS », in Genève au confluent du droit interne et du droit internationale, Mélanges offert par la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Genève à la Société Suisse des Juristes à l’occasion du Congrès 2012, Geneva – Zurich – Basle, p. 135-164
[Recent developments in the laws concerning international legal assistance in tax matters particularly as regards to the United States: seven lessons to be drawn from “UBS affair” ]

2.53    Thomas Cottier, „Tax fraud or the like“: Überlegungen und Lehren zum Legalitätsprinzip im Staatsvertragsrecht, in Zeitschrift für schweizeri-sches Recht, 2011, I, p. 97-122
[„Tax fraud or the like“: considerations and lessons learned on the principle of legality in the law of treaties]

k)    impacts on Swiss legal language

2.54    Jens Drolshammer/Nedim Vogt, English as the Language of Law?, An Essay on the Legal Lingua Franca of a Shrinking World, Zurich, Basle, Geneva, 2003, p. 1-59, (with an extensive bibliography, Further Reading and References, p. 61-95)

l)    impacts of US law and legal culture on foreign legal cultures from the perspective and perception of US lawyers and law professors

2.55    Arthur T. von Mehren/ Peter Murray, Law in the United States, Cambridge University Press, 2007; excerpt: final chapter The United States and the global legal community, Cambridge University Press, New York City, p. 273-298

3.    Bibliographical references

4.    Biographies of authors

 

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Table of content Europeanization

1.    Introduction

1.1    Purposes of the part on Europeanization and its relationship to the parts on Americanization and Globalization of Swiss law and legal culture

1.2    Swiss law and legal culture and the process of Europeanization after World War II – Elements and Causes and Milestones of the accelerated change

1.3    Characteristics and peculiarities of the dealing with the process of Europeanization of Swiss law and legal culture

1.4    Characteristics and peculiarities of the selection of the texts and of the authors in the writing on the process of Europeanization of Swiss law and legal culture

2.    Texts

A.    A cultural exchange and encounter – “travels” and “impacts” of Swiss legal culture in Europe
a)    impacts and radiation on projects of Europe and European integration

2.1     Johann Caspar Bluntschli – Organisation des europäischen Staatenvereins, Abschnitt aus Johannes Caspar Bluntschli, Die Gegen-wart, Band XII, Nr. 9, Paul Lindaulting, Berlin, 1878
[The Organization of the European Association of States]

2.2    The Hertenstein Programme, 22 September 1946 of the Union Européenne des Fédéralistes

2.3    Winston Churchill – Speech to the academic youth – in Zurich, September 19th, 1946

2.4    Denis de Rougemont, Die Schweiz, Modell Europas, Der Schweizerische Bund als Vorbild für eine europäische Föderation, 2. Aufl., Wien, Mün-chen, 1965, excerpt: 4. Teil, Die Schweiz im künftigen Europa, p. 229-258
[Switzerland, A Model for Europe, The Swiss Confederation as a model for a European Unification?]

2.5    Heinrich Schneider, Eidgenossenschaft – Vorbild und Leitbild für die Einigung Europas? In Thomas Cottier, Rachel Liechti–McKey, die Schweiz und Europa, wirtschaftliche Integration und institutionelle Abstinenz, Zürich, 2010, p. 107-162
[The Swiss Confederation – Model and Guiding Vision for the European Unification?]

b)         impacts and radiation on projects of the European Community and European Union

2.6    Alfred Kölz, Neuere Schweizerische Verfassungsgeschichte, Ihre Grundlinien in Bund und Kantone seit 1848, Berne, 2004, excerpt: Schweizerische Verfassungsgeschichte als Quelle von Anregungen für die Zukunft Europas?, p. 921-930
[Constitutional History as a Source for Suggestions for the Future of Europe?]

2.7    Peter Häberle, „Werkstatt Schweiz“: Verfassungspolitik im Blick auf das künftige Gesamt Europa, in Europäische Rechtskultur, Baden Baden, 1994, p. 355-364
[„Workshop Switzerland“: Constitutional Policy for a Unified Europe of the future]

2.8    Daniel Thürer, Deliberative Demokratie und Abstimmungsdemokratie, Zur Idee der demokratischen Gerechtigkeit im europäisch-staatlichen Spannungsfeld, in Daniel Thürer, Kosmopolitisches Staatsrecht, Grund-idee Gerechtigkeit, Band 1, Zürich/St. Gallen 2005, p. 41-63
[Deliberative and Voting Democracy, About the idea of democratic justice in the European tensions of state hood]

B.      A cultural exchange and encounter – “travels” and “impacts” of European law and integration on Swiss legal culture
a)    impacts on Swiss foreign policy on European Integration and the European Union – selective history of European Policy of Switzerland-examples

2.9    Henri Rieben, Le chemin européen, Lausanne, 1963, 17 pages
[ The Path of Europe ]

2.10    Dieter Freiburghaus, Die Vorbereitungsarbeiten der Schweiz, excerpt, in Erfolglose Annäherungsversuche der EFTA Staaten, Die Jahre 1961 – 1968 in Königsweg oder Sackgasse?, Sechzig Jahre schweizerische Europapo-litik, Zurich, 2009, p. 98 – 108
[the preparatory work for an unsuccessful association of Switzerland to the European Community]

2.11    Pierre Du Bois, Le Libre-échange en Europe de 1945 à 1960, in Olivier Jacot-Guillarmod (ed.) L’avenir du libre-échange en Europe : vers un Espace économique européen? Zurich / Berne, 1990, p. 3 – 15
[free trade in Europe from 1945 to 1960]

2.12    Ausschnitte aus Bericht über die Stellung der Schweiz im europäischen Integrationsprozess vom 24. August 1988, BBL 1988 III, 131-132, Aussen-politischer Bericht 2000, BBL. Nr. 6/2001, 261 and Europabericht 2006 vom 28. Juni 2006, BBL. Nr. 35/2005, 6815 ff
[Excerpts from the report of the position of Switzerland in the process of European Integration of August 24, 1988; Report on Foreign Policy 2000; Report on Europe 2006]

2.13    René Schwok, Switzerland – European Union, An impossible membership, European Policy No. 46, Brussels 2009, excerpts chapter 9, chapter 10 Why Switzerland refused to join the European Union, p. 93 – 126 and conclusions: Interesting Paradoxes p. 127 – 130

2.14     Dieter Freiburghaus, Fazit, excerpt, in Königsweg oder Sackgasse?, Sechzig Jahre schweizerische Europapolitik, Zurich, 2009, p. 349 – 367
[summary of 60 years of European policy]

b)    Impacts on Swiss law in general – and based upon the principle of Euro-compatibility by the legal process of “autonomer Nachvollzug” (autonomous adaptation) in particular

2.15    Daniel Thürer, Europaverträglichkeit als Rechtsargument, zu den Wegen und Möglichkeiten schweizerischer Rechtsanpassung an die neue Integrationsdynamik der Europäischen Gemeinschaften, in Festschrift Dietrich Schindler zum 65. Geburtstag, Basle, Frankfurt am Main, 1989, p. 561-582
[Eurocompatibility as legal argument – ways and possibilities of a Swiss legal adaptation to the new dynamics of European Integration]

2.16    Daniel Thürer, Kolumne: Von der sog. „Europaverträglichkeit“: Rechtsgestaltungsprinzip aus Verlegenheit oder Vehikel zur stillen Revolutionierung der Schweizerischen Rechtsordnung?, Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, 1993 II, p. 91-94
[The so-called „Euro-compatibility“: Principle of formation of law out of embarrassment or vehicle for a silent revolution of Swiss law?]

2.17    Daniel Thürer, Europäische Integration: Herausforderung durch eine sich wandelnde Rechtskultur, Europarecht, 1999, p. 2-7
[European Integration: Challange of a changing legal culture]

2.18    Carl Baudenbacher, Effects of International and European Integration on Switzerland, excerpt, in Swiss Economic Law Facing the Challenges of International and European Law, Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, 2012, p.495 – 510

2.19    Matthias Oesch, Die Europäisierung des Schweizerischen Rechts, in Die Eurokompatibilität des Schweizerischen Wirtschaftsrechts: Konvergenz und Divergenz, Thomas Cottier ed., Bibliothek zur Zeitschrift für Schwei-zerisches Recht, Beiheft 50, Basle, Geneva, 2012, p. 13 – 39
[The Europeanization of Swiss Law]

2.20    Thomas Cottier, Rachel Liechti, Einleitung und Synthese, excerpt, in Die Eurokompatibilität des Schweizerischen Wirtschaftsrechts: Konvergenz und Divergenz, Bibliothek zur Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, Beiheft 50, Basle, Geneva, 2012, p. 1 – 12
[ introduction and synthesis to a series of articles on eurocompatibility of Swiss economic law ]

2.21    Thomas Cottier, Swiss Model of European Integration, in Astrid Epiney and Stefan Diezig (eds), Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Europarecht 2012/2013, Berne 2013,  p. 1 – 17

c)    impacts on Swiss judges and Swiss courts

2.22    Olivier Jacquot-Guillarmod, Le Juge national face au droit européen, Perspective Suisse et communitaire, excerpt : Chapitre 1, Introduction p. 23-32, Frankfurt, Brusselles, 1993
[The judge facing European law, from a Swiss and European perspective]

2.23    Swiss Federal Tribunal, Judgement of the first civil law division in Öffentliche Arbeitslosenkasse des Kantons Solothurn vs. Metallbau X GmbH, 4C.316/2002 on March 25th 2003 (BGE 129 III 335)

2.24    Thomas Probst, Die Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofes als neue Herausforderung für die Praxis und die Wissenschaft im Schweize-rischen Privatrecht, in Basler Juristische Mitteilungen, 2004, p. 225-260
[The case law of the European Court of Justice as new challange for legal practice and legal science in Swiss private law]

d)    impacts on Swiss legislation

2.25    Franz Werro, Vers un Code européen des contrats ?, in François Bellanger et. al (eds.), in Le contrat dans tous ses états, Berne, 2004, p. 341-357
[ Towards an european code of contracts ? ]

e)    impacts on Swiss legal professions

2.26    Jens Drolshammer/Michael Pfeifer, The International Practice of Law : The Swiss Experience, in Tulane European & Civil Law Forum, Volume 14, 1999, p. 66-99

f)    impacts on the institutional changes requested by the European Union as a precondition for negotiations of further Bilateral Agreements

2.27    Carl Baudenbacher, The EU’s call for institutionalization of the bilateral agreements, excerpt, in Swiss Economic Law Facing the Challenges of International and European Law, Zeitschrift für Schweizerisches Recht, 2012 , p. 582 – 588

2.28    Daniel Thürer, Gutachten über mögliche Formen der Umsetzung und Anwendung der Bilateralen Abkommen, erstattet an den schweizerischen Bundesrat am 7. Juli 2011, together with Prof. Thomas Burri. p. 1-43
[Legal opinion for the Swiss government on possible forms of transformation and application of Bilateral Treaties]

2.29    Schweizerisches Bundesgericht, Briefliche Stellungnahme über mögliche Formen der Umsetzung und Anwendung der Bilateralen Abkommen, erstattet an den schweizerischen Bundesrat vom 29. Juni 2011  p. 1-4
[Swiss Federal Tribunal, advisory opinion in form of a letter to the Swiss government on possible forms of transformation and application of Bilateral Treaties]

g)    impacts from the perspective of neighbouring humanities and social sciences – literature – history – political science – political economy

2.30    Fritz Ernst, European Switzerland, historically considered, Zurich 1951, p. 1-72

2.31    Karl Schmid, Die Schweiz vor der europäischen Wirklichkeit, Referat gehalten am schweizerischen Gewerbekongress vom 8./9. Mai 1986 in Zürich, in Die Schweiz zwischen Tradition und Zukunft, Ansprachen und Aufsätze aus 25 Jahren, Schaffhausen/Stäfa 1991, p. 55-72
[Switzerland facing the European reality]

2.32    Herbert Lüthy, Die Schweiz als Antithese, mit einem Nachwort des Verfassers, Zürich 1969, ursprünglich in französischer Sprache geschrie-ben „La Suisse à contre-courant“, in Revue Economique Franco-Suisse, 1961; in deutscher Sprache erstmals in Herbert Lüthy Nach dem Unter-gang des Abendlandes, Zeitkritische Essays, Cologne 1964, p. 1-55
[Switzerland as Antithesis]

2.33    Adolf Muschg, excerpt, Europa: Das Fest, Der Tod und die Andern  in  Was ist europäisch? Reden für einen gastlichen Erdteil, Bonn, 2005, p. 93 – 126.
[ Fourth lecture in a series What is European ? – Europe : the fear, the death and the others ]

2.34    Peter von Matt, Die Schweiz zwischen Ursprung und Fortschritt, Zur Seelengeschichte einer Nation, in Das Kalb von der Gotthardpost, zur Literatur und Politik der Schweiz, Munich, 2012, p. 9-93
[Switzerland between origin and progress, on the history of the soul of a nation]

2.35    Wolf Linder, Vom Zustand der Republik, Zeitschrift des Bernischen Juristenvereins, 2010, p. 67-87; leicht überarbeitete Abschiedsvorlesung des Autors an der Universität Bern vom 5. November 2009
[On the state of the Republic]

2.36    Bruno S. Frey, Experimentierfreudiges Europa, Schweizer Monat, Juni 2013, Ausgabe 1007, p. 64-68
[Europe – Keen to experiment?]

3.    Bibliographical references

4.    Biographies of authors

© Prof. Jens Drolshammer, office@drolshammer.com,  www.drolshammer.net

Dietrich Schindler Junior was born on the 22^nd December 1924 in Zurich. He is a Swiss lawyer, who particularly excelled in humanitarian international public law, human rights, neutrality policy and federalism.  From 1964 to 1989 he was a Professor for International Law and Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich.

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Heinz Aemisegger has a law degree of the University of Zurich. He passed the bar exam of the Canton of Schaffhausen in 1972. He started his career as a clerk in the Supreme Court of the Canton of Schaffhausen.

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Biographies of authors

The biographies of authors are an important feature of Swiss legal culture, as represented in this primarily text based anthology. They are an essential and integral supplement to the texts.

The sources of the biographies are identified at the end of the text. Some biographies have been penned by the authors.

4.1      James Hutson
4.2      Paul Widmer
4.3      Alexander Hamilton
4.4      James Madison
4.5      John Jay
4.6      Gordon A. Craig
4.7      Albert Gallatin
4.8      Johann August Sutter
4.9      Blaise Cendrars
4.10    Stefan Zweig
4.11    Heinz K. Meier
4.12    Raymond Probst
4.13    Alan Dershowitz
4.14    William Rappard
4.15    Louis Menand
4.16    Stephen Jay Gould
4.17    Alexis de Tocqueville
4.18    Karl W. Deutsch
4.19    Alfred Kölz
4.20    Johann Jakob Rüttimann
4.21    Emilie Kempin-Spyri
4.22    Evelyn Hasler
4.23    Wolfgang Wiegand
4.24    Jens Drolshammer
4.25    Regina Kiener
4.26    Raphael Lanz
4.27    Peter Böckli
4.28    Heinrich Koller
4.29    Heinz Aernisegger
4.30    Peter Nobel
4.31    Peter Saladin
4.32    Daniel Frei
4.33    Thomas Cottier
4.34    Dietrich Schindler junior
4.35    Detlev Vagts
4.36    Stuart Eizenstat
4.37    Thomas Maissen
4.38    René Matteotti
4.39    Xavier Oberson
4.40    Nedim Vogt
4.41    Arthur T. van Mehren
4.42    Peter Murray

© Prof. Jens Drolshammer, office@drolshammer.com,  www.drolshammer.net