suum cuique tribuere 1 Korpiola, Mia (ed.), 2014. 2 Wersäll, Fredrik et al., 2014. 3 See, for example: Wijffels, Alain and C.H. van Rhee (eds.), 2013. 4 Smend, Rudolf, 1911. 14 he firstearly-modern Swedish Court of Appeal, Svea hovrätt in Stockholm, celebrated its quadri-centennial in 2014 with two monographs and several seminars and symposia. The Olin Foun- T dation of Legal History published an anthology edited by Professor Mia Korpiola, Turku University, with scientific articles regarding the early modern history of the court.1 The Court also celebrated with a substantial Festschrift edited by among others the President of the Court Fredrik Wersäll and emphasizing the role of the court in the current time and also with prognosticating perspectives regarding the Swedish Courts of Appeal in the future.2 In October 2014 the Olin Foundation arranged an international symposium in the Wrangel’s Palace, the venues of the Svea Court of Appeal since1756, with the titleSuumCuique Tribuere: Legal Contexts, Judicial Archetypes and Deep-Structures regarding Courts of Appeal and Judiciaries from Early Modern to Late Modern Europe. The aim of this symposium was to identify and discuss the new trends and discourses within legal history regarding European Supreme and Appellate Courts and their judiciaries – a theme of high priority among European legal historians.3 ThepreSecondWorldWar-discoursesemanating fromRudolf Smend’s classical work on the Imperial Chamber Court (Reichskammergericht) from19114 were brought into an intense critical research initiated by German postwar legal historians, mainly Bernhard Diestelkamp (Frankfurt/Main), Wolfgang Sellert (Göttingen), and Friedrich Battenberg (Darmstadt).But also legal historians from the Netherlands participated, professor Jacobus Thomas ”Tom” de Smidt (Leiden; 1923-2013), and 1.
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