Comparing the Prospective Effect of Judicial Rulings Across Jurisdictions

Foreword.- About the Contributors.- Judicial Rulings with Prospective Effect-from Comparison to Systematization; Eva Steiner.- Part I European Jurisdictions.- The Prospective and Retrospective Effect of Judicial Decisions in Ireland; Niamh Connolly.- Effects in Time of Judgments in the Netherlands: Prospective Overruling and Related Techniques; Remco van Rhee and Wytze van der Woude.- The Temporal Effects of Judicial Decisions in Belgium; Sarah Verstraelen, Patricia Popelier and Sébastien van Drooghenbroeck.- Changing the Case law Pro Future in Germany - A Puzzle of Legal Theory and Practice; Adam Sagan.- Towards a Sophisticated Theory of Precedent - Prospective and Retrospective Overruling in the Czech Legal System; denek Kühn.- The Role of Case Law and the Prospective Overruling in the Greek Legal System; Antonios G. Karampatzos and Georgios Malos.- The Portuguese Experience of Judge Made Law and the Possibility of Prospective Intentions and Effects; José Manuel Aroso Linhares and Ana Margarida Gaudêncio.- Judicial Rulings with Prospective Effect in Italy; Michele Taruffo.- Part II North-American Jurisdictions.- Retroactivity and Prospectivity of Judgments in American law; Richard S. Kay.- Canada: The Rise of Judgments with Suspended Effect; Lionel Smith.- Part III South-American Jurisdictions.- Judicial Rulings with Prospective Effect in Argentina; Alejandra Rodríguez Galán.- Judicial Rulings with Prospective Effect in Brazilian Law; Humberto Dalla Bernardina de Pinho.- Judicial Rulings with Prospective Effect in Venezuela; Hildegard Rondón de Sansó.- Part IV Asian- Oceanian Jurisdictions.- Judicial Rulings with Prospective Effect in Australia; Justice James Douglas, Eleanor Atkins and Hamish Clift.- Prospective Overruling in Singapore: A Judicial Framework for the Future?; Gary K.Y. Chan.- Questionnaire.