Heroes of the Judicial Periphery

Alan Uzelac is Professor of Civil Procedure at Zagreb University, Croatia.Stefaan Voet is Professor of Civil Procedure at KU Leuven, Belgium.

• 1. Unknown is Unloved: The Heroes of Judicial Periphery, Stefaan Voet (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Alan Uzelac (University of Zagreb, Croatia)Part I: Court Staff2. Law Clerks: A Tool for Reducing Delays in Civil Justice in the EU, Nicolas Kyriakides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) and Athina Katsiantoni (Cyprus)3. The Italian Path to Judicial Clerkship, Elisabetta Silvestri (University of Pavia, Italy)4. If She Acts as a Judge, Earns as a Judge, then She Must be a Judge! The Case of Judicial Advisors in Croatia, Juraj Brozovic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)5. The Role of Judicial Secretaries in Spain: The Story of a Collective Frustration? Fernando Gascón Inchausti (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)6. A Brief Overview of Some Aspects of Court Staff Training from a Belgian and European Perspective, Raf Van Ransbeeck (KU Leuven, Belgium)7. Judicial Assistance in England and Wales, John Sorabji (University College London, UK)8. Judicial Assistants and Courts as a Teamwork - The Clerkship: A Vision from Latin America, Álvaro Pérez Ragone (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Peru)9. The Missed Assistant Judges and the Lost Judge Assistants: A Reflection of the Judiciary Classification in China, Yulin Fu (University of Peking, China)Part II: Court Experts10. Expert Knowledge: Closer to the Centre than to the Periphery, Eduardo Oteiza (La Plata National University, Argentina)11. Experts on Foreign Law in German Civil Procedure, Michael Stürner (University of Konstanz, Germany)12. Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? Party-appointed Experts in Serbian Litigation Proceedings, Branka Babovic Vuksanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)13. Party-appointed vs Court-appointed Experts: Considerations in Light of the Macedonian Experience, Tatjana Zoroska Kamilovsk (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia)14. Appointment of Experts in Norwegian Civil Proceedings, Magne Strandberg (University of Konstanz, Germany)15. Expert Evidence in Custody Disputes and Child Protection Cases. Much Debate and Limited Research, Camilla Bernt (University of Bergen, Norway)16. The Heroes of Judicial Periphery: Court Experts and Shadow Actors: A View from South Africa, Danie van Loggerenberg (University of Pretoria, South Africa)Part III: Other Actors17. Beyond Wooden Desks: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Reshaping the Role of Court Staff, Gina Gioia (Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy) and Seyedeh Sajedeh Salehi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)18. Supporting Actors in International Child Abduction Cases before Brazilian Federal Courts, Maurício Magalhães Lamha (2nd Federal Court Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)19. Can the King be Wrong? The Brazilian Public Prosecutors as 'Heroes of the Periphery': Prosecutors who Sue the State and Large Corporations in Collective Redress Cases, Hermes Zaneti Jr (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)20. Financing Collective Actions and Strategic Litigation in Europe: The Role of Third-Party Funders in the Shadow of the Procedure, Adriani Dori (Erasmus School of Law, the Netherlands) and Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University, the Netherlands)

The book effectively contributes new knowledge on the importance of judicial periphery for the quality and speed of judicial proceedings, cementing its value as a foundational text for future comparative civil procedure scholarly inquiry and practical improvements in civil justice systems worldwide.