Product Description

This book offers an account of the major features of French law and the French legal system for students and lawyers with a background or emphasis in common law. What sorts of questions would French lawyers consider important? And how would they reply to them? This comprehensive introduction has the answers to such queries; it fully explains French legal institutions, concepts, and techniques. Considerable use is made of the relevant French jurisprudential literature, and several examples from French case-law are included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1638438 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-14
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 584 pages

Review

"A thorough and yet concise expose of the basic tenents of French Law. Every student approaching the subject should consider buying this one."--D Flondas, Enseignant, Academie de Paris
The present book ... covers virtually the whole of French law, the division between public and private law being a pervasive and illuminating theme./ The book reads very well. The presentation is distinctly good. Cross-referencing is abundant. ... to those who want a single book on French law, one can strongly recommend it and say 'il faut en profiter.'--Tony Weir, Law Quarterly Review, Jan 1999.
"Very comprehensive, these "principles" are also of a high quality...Clear, well-structured, complete, the book has managed to find a good balance between an English and a French presentation, The references and ruling are also well chosen and there are neither too many or too few", Denis Tallon, Extrait de als Revue Internationale du Droit Compare, No.4 1999

About the Author

John Bell is Professor of Public and Comparative Law at the University of Leeds. His publications include French Constitutional Law (1992), Cross on Statutory Interpretation 3rd edn (with Sir G. Engle, 1995), and French Administrative Law 5th edn (with Neville Brown, 1998).
Sophie Boyron is Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham.
Simon Whittaker is Fellow and Tutor in Law, St John's College, Oxford.