mixed legal systems – kjell å. modéer 399 Frankfurt along with the first generation of post-WW II legal historians, was one of the founding fathers of a substantial network and is still an active champion.1144 This group of researchers meets regularly in Wetzlar, once the site of the court and now of the Society of the Imperial Chamber Court (Gesellschaft für Reichskammergerichtsforschung).1145 The immense research effort on the Supreme German courts and judiciaries is well documented, its publication series (Die grüne Reihe) having now reached number 65.1146 The other imperial court, the Court Council of the Empire or the Aulic Council, theReichshofrat, once located in Vienna, is also currently being investigated in a huge project chaired by Professor Wolfgang Sellert in Göttingen.1147 A result of this research on the German Supreme Imperial Courts, similar projects have been running in other European countries. In the Netherlands, Professor AlainWijffels at Leiden, Brussels and Louvain has made important contributions related to the Great Council in Malines as well as other continental European high courts. Professor Wijffels recently edited an impressive historically orientated book on European Supreme Courts together with Professor Remco van Rhee in Maastricht.1148 Directly relevant to the present volume is the European research network coordinated by Professors Serge Dauchy (Lille), Ulrike Müßig (Passau) and Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki). They organized a conference on cross-border influences of legal literature in early modern times (ca. 1550– ca. 1750) in 2008, the approaches of which also fit very well into the ambitions and concept of this volume.1149 The main objective of this volume has been to use the original historical sources with the aim of revising and adjusting the previous state of the art in research on the Swedish courts of appeal. The articles in this volume, however, are mainly based on court records. The Swedish records 1144 Diestelkamp, Bernhard 2013. 1145 See online at: http://www.reichskammergericht.de (last accessed on 1 July 2014). 1146 Quellen und Forschungen zur höchsten Gerichtsbarkeit im Alten Reich (QFHG). 1147 See online at: http://www.univie.ac.at/reichshofrat/ and http://reichshofratsakten.de/ ?page_id=25 (both last accessed on 1 July 2014). 1148 Wijffels, Alain 2013. 1149 Dauchy, Serge – Müssig, Ulrike – Pihlajamäki, Heikki 2008. Early Modern Court Records as Primary Sources
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