The Precarious Life and Slow Death of the Mixed Courts of Egypt
1993 ◽
Vol 25
(1)
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pp. 33-52
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Keyword(s):
The Past
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Over the past century, most states of the Middle East have attempted to strengthen and centralize their legal systems, often following European models. Egypt undertook one of the first steps in that direction with its mixed-court system. These courts, which had jurisdiction in civil and commercial cases that involved a foreigner, however remotely, operated from 1876 until 1949. That this system could survive the political turmoil of those years, far outliving the circumstances which brought it into being, is remarkable.