French Legal Cultures

This work compares civil and common law systems using the French legal system as its basis.

John Bell (Author)

9780521606127, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 May 2001

304 pages
23.4 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.524 kg

This important new textbook compares civil and common law systems using the French legal system as its basis. Focusing on the four main branches of French Law: civil, criminal, administrative and constitutional law, the book examines the way that the judiciary, lawyers and academics operate within them.

1. Introduction
2. The institutional setting
3. The culture of the French criminal legal system
4. The culture of the French civil legal system
5. The culture of the French administrative legal system
6. The culture of the French constitutional legal system
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Laws of Specific jurisdictions [LN], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA]