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Legal science and Democracy

Conferences

Norbert Foulquier, Guillaume Sacriste : A forgotten Constitutional lawyer : Raymond Saleilles

Nowadays Raymond Saleilles is known as one of the first specialist of civil law at the turn of XIXth and XXth centuries. His studies on obligation and the B.G.B. are still used. His international fame also comes from his works on penal law in which he (...)
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Legal science and Democracy

Oliver Lepsius : The science of Public Law and Democracy. What are the tasks of legal science in a democratically built legal order?

For a long time, German Public Law Science has considered Constitutional Law in relation to State or to the Constitution. Sixty years after the birth of the Fundamental Law and after 120 volumes of records from the Federal Constitutional Court, those two (...)
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Jean-Marie Denquin : Let’s get it over with the so-called crisis of representation

The widely-held idea that there is a crisis in the representative system lies on a double illusion. The social malaise supposedly conveyed by this idea is in fact inherent to modern political societies and does not imply a questioning of the mechanism of (...)
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Renaud Baumert : A “moral vision” of constitutional justice under Weimar Republic

Under the Weimar Constitution, the issue of judicial review brought division among the state law scholars [Staatsrechtslehre]. While the texts remained silent on the subject, numerous advocates of that idea encouraged the judge to seize that competence (...)
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Arthur Dyèvre : Understanding and analysing the decisional activity of courts and tribunals : the interest of the distinction between interpretation and concretization

Adjudication and the operations of judicial bodies in general are often described in vague and ambiguous terms which make it hard to differentiate their cognitive from their volitive aspects. The distinction between interpretation and concretization aims (...)
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The Art of Legislation (Symposium of the “Institut Villey”, 2009)

Colloque « Art de la Législation et Typologies des Régimes Constitutionnels » organisé le 24 octobre 2009 à Paris par l’Institut Michel Villey pour la Culture juridique et la Philosophie du droit.

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Papers

Dissertations

Maxime Tourbe : Theorizing judicial power under a “Government by Judiciary” : Woodrow Wilson’s legal realism at a test

The studies on the constitutional thought of the theorist and statesman Woodrow Wilson are mainly centered on the ideas he developed from his Congressional Government, especially his critique of the separation between the executive and legislative (...)
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Book reviews

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N°4

Conferences

Norbert Foulquier, Guillaume Sacriste : A forgotten Constitutional lawyer : Raymond Saleilles

Legal science and Democracy

Oliver Lepsius : The science of Public Law and Democracy. What are the tasks of legal science in a democratically built legal order?

Jean-Marie Denquin : Let’s get it over with the so-called crisis of representation

Renaud Baumert : A “moral vision” of constitutional justice under Weimar Republic

Arthur Dyèvre : Understanding and analysing the decisional activity of courts and tribunals : the interest of the distinction between interpretation and concretization

The Art of Legislation (Symposium of the “Institut Villey”, 2009)

Robert A. Kagan : Fragmented Political Structures and Fragmented Law

Peter L. Lindseth : The “Law-Regulation Distinction” and European Integration: Reflections on the German Jurisprudence from the 1960s to the Present

Nicola Lacey : Electoral Systems and the Politics of Criminal Justice: the dynamics of proportional representation versus winner-takes-all systems

James Q. Whitman : Freedom of Speech and law of elections : changes in a freedom that is supposed to be fundamental

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Laurence Morel : The French Fifth Republic, the referendum and the plebiscitary democracy of Max Weber

Quentin Epron : The speaking time of political personalities in the audiovisual media

Papers

Pierre Serrand : Administrating and governing. History of a distinction

Armel Le Divellec : The normative “Frame-order”. Some Outlines about the Concept of Constitution

Dissertations

Maxime Tourbe : Theorizing judicial power under a “Government by Judiciary” : Woodrow Wilson’s legal realism at a test

Book reviews

Crystal Cordell : Philippe Raynaud, Trois révolutions de la liberté. Angleterre, Amérique, France, Paris, 2009.

Jacky Hummel : Renaud Baumert, La découverte du juge constitutionnel, entre science et politique (...), Paris, 2009.

Thierry Leterre : Lucien Jaume, Qu’est-ce que l’esprit européen?, Flammarion, 2010.

Sébastien Roland : Augustin Simard, La loi désarmée. Carl Schmitt et la controverse légalité / légitimité sous Weimar, 2009