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The French Civil Code
This book charts the formation of the French Civil Code, examining both its public and private effects. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, French private law was very different in the various parts of the country. In northern and central France, there were as many as sixty-five general customs in force, as well as over three hundred local customs, often differing from them in detail. As the feeling of nationhood grew, so did the idea of replacing the existing variety of laws by a single private law, possibly a code, common to all of France. 'A single body of law, called the Code Civil is to be created' proclaimed the Law of 21 March 1804, which was created by the amalgamation of thirty-six texts. The French Civil Code analyzes the Code using contemporary and modern sources, including the beautiful and concise extract from H.A.L. Fisher's History of Europe which gives an English historian's appraisal of Napoleon's contribution to the Code Civil. This text will appeal to all students of and those with an interest in international law.
Five Legal Revolutions Since the 17th Century
This book presents an analysis of global legal history in Modern times, questioning the effect of political revolutions since the 17th century on the legal field. Readers will discover a non-linear approach to legal history as this work investigates the ways in which law is created. These chapters look at factors in legal revolution such as the role of agents, the policy of applying and publicising legal norms, codification and the orientations of legal writing, and there is a focus on the publicization of law. The author uses Herbert Hart’s schemes to conceive law as a human artefact or convention, being the union between primary rules of obligations and secondary rules conferring powers....
Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment
A collaboration of leading historians of European law and philosophers of law and politics identifying and explaining the practice of interpretation of law in the 18th century. The goal: establishing the actual practice in the Age of Enlightenment, and explaining why this was the case. The ideology of the Age was that law, i.e., the will of the sovereign, can be explicitly and appropriately stated, thus making interpretation redundant. However, the reality was that in the 18th century, there was no one leading source of national law that would be the object of interpretation. Instead, there was a plurality of sources of law: the Roman Law, local customary law, and the royal ordinance. However, in deciding a case in a court of law, the law must speak with one voice. Hence, interpretation to unify the norms was inevitable. What was the process? What role did justification in terms of reason, the hallmark of the Enlightenment, play? These are some of the questions addressed.
State Law and Legal Positivism
There was a truly global revolution that reflected a Great Divide between ancient and new legal regimes. The volume emphasizes its depth and scale and explores the phenomenon in the contexts of Morocco, Egypt, India, the Ottoman empire, China, and Japan.
The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the granting of civil rights to illegitimate children. Contrary to arguments that claim the Revolution ...
Une histoire des droits dans le monde
Est-il possible, à l'heure de l'histoire globale, transnationale ou connectée, d'écrire une histoire des droits affranchie du point de vue eurocentré qui a structuré tant d'histoires dites " universelles " depuis le XIXe siècle ? Est-il possible, à l'heure de l'histoire globale, transnationale ou connectée, d'écrire une histoire des droits affranchie du point de vue eurocentré qui a structuré tant d'histoires dites " universelles " depuis le XIXe siècle ? Et comment rendre compte du développement du droit sans verser dans le discours classique célébrant un progrès supposé uniforme et unilinéaire ? C'est ce double pari que relève cet ouvrage nous conduisant des multiples in...
Introduction au droit en 10 thèmes 4ed - Avec exemples détaillés
La collection " Séquences " propose une approche pédagogique et renouvelée des grandes matières juridiques. Le présent ouvrage réinvente au travers de 10 séquences les grands thèmes abordés dans l'enseignement de l'introduction au droit. Liant histoire et sources du droit, hiérarchie des normes et droit européen, ces 10 séquences permettent d'aborder différemment la matière juridique en revenant sur les grandes notions qui la constituent mais également en proposant des situations qui montrent leur mise en application. Chaque ouvrage de la collection " Séquences " est composé d'une dizaine de thèmes comprenant une partie " présentation " et une partie " situations ". La pre...
De la méthode historique en jurisprudence et de son avenir
Sans avoir jamais été professeur d'histoire du droit en titre, Edouard-René Lefebvre de Laboulaye, professeur de législation comparée au Collège de France aux idées libérales, a joué un rôle majeur dans le développement de cette discipline en France, à travers la rédaction de l'article programmatique ouvrant le premier numéro de la Revue historique de droit français et étranger (1855), "De la méthode historique en jurisprudence et de son avenir ". A un siècle et demi de distance, Jean-Louis Halpérin propose, avec le même plan, un manifeste sur la méthode historique, ses usages présents ou à venir dans les sciences juridiques.
