Jean-Louis Halperin – författare

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.

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.

De sa recréation en 1804 jusqu’aux années 1950, l’école de droit de Paris, qui prit le titre de Faculté à compter du 1er janvier 1809, fut par le nombre de ses étudiants le premier établissement d’enseignement supérieur de France et se vantait dans les années 1930 d’être le plus important au monde. Alors qu’aucune monographie ne lui avait été consacrée, cet ouvrage collectif réalise, à partir des archives, une socio-histoire du corps professoral et d’une institution universitaire au centre de la culture académique du droit en France. Dans quelle mesure Paris a-t-elle tenu son rang de « capitale juridique » à travers la formation d’étudiants venus de toute la France et de l’étranger ? Comment comprendre le relatif déclin du rayonnement de cette Faculté dans la première moitié du XXe siècle et le positionnement de ses professeurs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale ? Chercher à répondre à ces questions ne peut qu’éclairer les débats actuels sur l’enseignement du droit.

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. Here we learn about those secondary rules and the legal construction of the Modern state and we question the extent to which codification and law reporting were likely to revolutionize the legal field.

These chapters examine the hypothesis of a legal revolution that could have concerned many countries in modern times. To begin with, the book considers the legal aspect of the construction of Modern States in the 17th and 18th centuries. It goes on to examine the consequences of the codification movement as a legal revolution before looking at the so-called “constitutional” revolution, linked with the extension of judicial review in many countries after World War II. Finally, the book enquires into the construction of an EU legal order and international law.

In each of these chapters, the author measures the scope of the change, how the secondary rules are concerned, the role of the professional lawyers and what are the characters of the new configuration of the legal field. This book provokes new debates in legal philosophy about the rule of change and will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of law, theories of law, legal history, philosophy of law and historians more broadly.