Background
Smit, Hans was born on August 13, 1927 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Came to the United States 1952. Son of Eylard Albertus and Trijntje (de Jong) Smit.
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International Co-Operation in Litigation: Europe
(The reports collected in this book were prepared at the i...)
The reports collected in this book were prepared at the initiative and under the auspices of the Project on International Procedure of the School of Law of Columbia University within the framework of its co-operation with the Commission on International Rules of Judicial Procedure, a body created by Act of Congress of September 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1743. The Commission is charged with studying domestic and foreign procedures of international co-operation in litigation with a view to suggesting improvements. Since June 1960, the Project has assisted the Commission in carrying out this statutorily assigned task. Work on the reports here presented was begun in the fall of 1960. The Project invoked the assistance of an active practitioner in each of the foreign countries se1ected and submitted to hirn an extensive questionnaire summarizing American procedures and posing detailed quest ions about foreign practices. The elaborate answers to these questionnaires provided the information on which the American co authors relied in drafting the English versions of the reports. By having proceeded in this fashion, the Project hopes to have prepared reports that reflect the knowledge and experience of the foreign practitioners and at the same time are drafted in terms intelligible to common law lawyers. Furthermore, to ensure that the reports would take due account of official views, in almost all instances, final drafts of the reports were submitted for comments and suggestions to appropriate foreign public officials.
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Rosenberg, Smit and Dreyfuss's Elements of Civil Procedure, Cases and Materials, 5th (University Casebook Series) (English and English Edition)
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Informed selection of cases illustrating the major elements of civil procedure, including text and explanatory materials. Includes detailed sections analyzing the significance of cases and their points of law, discussing: Civil Procedure as a Studied Enterprise; Translating Rights into Remedies; Which Courts, Law and Litigants; Preliminaries to the Trial; The Rising Art of Judicial Administration; Adjudication and its Effects; and Efforts to Control Decision Makers.
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Hans Smit
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Education
Bachelor of Laws with highest honors, University Amsterdam, 1946. Juris Doctor with highest honors, University Amsterdam, 1949. AM, Columbia University, 1953.
Bachelor of Laws with highest honors, Columbia University, 1958. D. (honorary), University Paris I, 1991.
Career
Partner, Bodenhausen, Blackstone, Rueb, Bloemsma & Smit, The Hague, 1952-1958;
associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, 1958-1960;
member of faculty law, Columbia University, New York City, since 1960;
associate professor, Columbia University, New York City, 1960-1962;
professor, Columbia University, New York City, since 1962;
Stanley H. Fuld professor of law, Columbia University, New York City, since 1978. Director Parker School Foreign and Comparative Law. Visiting professor U. Paris, Sorbonne-Pantheon, 1975-1976, 89-90, 92-94.
Director Project on International Proceedings, Columbia University. Reporter United States Committee on International Rules Judicial Procedure, 1960-1967. Board directors Project on European Legal Institute, 1968, Leyden-Amsterdam-Columbia Summer Program in American Law.
Consultant international commercial transactions, international litigation. Arbitrator Interstate Commerce Commission and American Automobile Association.
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Works
book
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International Co-Operation in Litigation: Europe
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Rosenberg, Smit and Dreyfuss's Elements of Civil Procedure, Cases and Materials, 5th (University Casebook Series) (English and English Edition)
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- World Arbitration Reporter (WAR) - 2nd Edition
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International Co-Operation in Litigation: Europe
Membership
Member All-Dutch Waterpolo team 1946-1948, All-American Waterpolo team, Amateur Athletic Union, 1954. Member American Bar Association, International Bar Association, American Foreign Law Association, Association of Bar of City of New York, American Society International Law, German-American Lawyers' Association, International Association Jurists of United States of America-Italy, International Academy Comparative Law, Royal Dutch Society Arts and Sciences (associate), American Arbitration Association, International Chamber of Commerce.
Connections
Married Beverly M. Gershgol, August 1, 1954. Children: Robert Hugh, Marion Tina.
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1991