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suum cuique tribuere TheOlin-Symposium inOctober 2014 aimed firsthand to release the volume on the Court of Appeal Professor that Mia Korpiola had edited.16 It also aimed at putting the Svea Court of Appeal into its European and global contexts of research. In this volume, edited by LL.D. Martin Sunnqvist and me, assisted by LL.M. Kim Dohm-Hansen, most of these international contributions to the 2014 symposium, providing context to the Svea Court of Appeal and discussing High Courts from different jurisdictions, are published. Since the late 1990s a generation of younger researchers in legal history and history have founded an interdisciplinary network to stimulate research not only on the Imperial Chamber Court (Reichskammergericht) and Aulic Council (Reichshofrat) but also on the territorial courts in the Holy Roman Empire and their international counterparts. This research has to a great extent been made possible by the great inventory work regarding all the files in those courts initiated and implemented by the older generation since the 1970s.17 The Stockholm symposium opened with professor Alain Wijffels’s keynote address, Central and Peripheral Courts: Changing Historical Perspectives, which also initiates this volume. Professor Wijffels is a leading contemporary European legal historian. Professor Tom de Smidt was his Doktorvater, and he came early in the 1980s into the network of the scholars related to the Imperial Chamber Court studies. He holds degrees from Amsterdam (1985), and Cambridge (UK) (1994). He is Professor of Legal History and Comparative Law at Université catholique de Louvain and teaches European constitutional history and the History of International Public Law at the University of Leiden, as well as comparative constitutional legal history at theKatholieke Universiteit Leuvenand at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk. He is a member of several academies and scholarly associations throughout Europe, and his article in this volume is a grand survey of the relation between political and ju16 See supra fn. 1. 17 Denzler, Alexander et al., 2015, pp. 1 ff. 16 2.

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