kjell å modéer Korean legal history in comparison with European legal history, with particular emphasis on customary law. In her article “Michel de L’Hôpital and Christophe de Thou:Two Perceptions of Royal Justice during the French ReligiousWars” she is giving an illustrative example on how the French Parlement de Paris practiced law. Professor Kim argues that historical unfolding in sixteenth-century France was shaped by constitutional, religious, political, and administrative issues, and it was also swayed by both public and private interests. The consolidation of the noblesse de robe in the midst of religious conflicts presented unique opportunities and challenges to both the king and his judges. The focus then turned from the continental European to the AngloAmerican scene. Professor emeritus Wilfrid Prest, Law School & School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, is not only a distinguished specialist of William Blackstone25 and Blackstone’s England, he has also published an important study on the Early modern legal profession in England.26 He gave a survey of The House of Lords as a Court of Appeal in the 17th and 18th centuries. At first hand there seems to be little common ground between the continental imperial and territorial courts of appeal and the High Court of the Parliament, but he demonstrated in his paper “that the gulf between the institutions and practices of the early modern House of Lords, and contemporary appellate jurisdictions of Continental Europe, was by no means so broad and deep as might at first appear.” Also in the United States a great project regarding publishing of files from the first decade of the Supreme Court 1789 – 1800 was initiated in 1977. The Supreme Court Documentary History Project resulted in eight volumes, the last one published in 2007.27 Professor Maeva Marcus, at the School of Law, George Washington University, WashingtonD.C. (USA) – a specialist in the Supreme Court’s judicial culture in the early republic – was themain editor of the project The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800, concluded in 2007. The project resul25 Prest, Wilfrid, 2008. 26 Prest, Wilfrid, 1986. 27 Marcus, Maeva and Perry, James (eds.), 1985 – 2007. 23
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