Explains the sources of French law, the structure of the courts and professions, and the characteristics of the legal process. This book: covers the areas taught at the beginning of courses on French law; includes chapters on academic and professional law studies in France; and features illustrations on how to structure essays and exercises.

This text provides a basic introduction to the French legal system, covering all aspects. It explains the sources of French law, the structure of its courts and legal professions, and all other aspects of the legal process.

Introduces the key features of French administrative law and institutions to English-speaking readers.

This book provides an ideal introduction to the French legal system and its internal workings, replete with the latest case law and developments.

Aims to provide comprehensive coverage of the French legal system. The text is comparative in its approach to institutions and principles in English and French law and concentrates on the "law in action". The author uses analysis to highlight the differences between the two legal systems.

French law displays many characteristics that set it apart in a world class of its own. It can be said to proceed from a number of independent streams that coexist despite apparent contradiction. More than half of the 2283 articles of the famous Code Civile of 1804 remain unaltered; yet French administrative judges jealously guard their prerogative to create their own public law. And yet again, since the 1974 law empowering the legislature to convene the Constitutional Council that judges the constitutionality of laws under the 1958 Constitution, the courts' distinction between 'rules' and 'fu.

Offering students and lawyers an introduction to the French law and legal system, this text gives an explanation of the French institutions, concepts, and techniques, providing a clear sense of the questions which French lawyers see as important.

This work combines a theoretical approach to legal translation with a practical exposition of how the relevant principles may be applied to the French legal system. The author also includes a discussion of what is meant by "legal language" and available techniques for translating legal terms.

This is a masterful study of the ways in which sex and law were inextricably intertwined in the elaboration of French rule in Algeria. Its great virtue is to demonstrate in careful detail, with an impressive range of material (from court records to novels), exactly how the conquest of Algeria repeatedly challenged the very ideals of the secular universalism in whose name colonization was carried out.― Joan Wallach Scott, author of Sex and Secularism During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930, Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian Muslims full citizenship. In disconnecting Muslim law from property rights, French officials increasingly attached it to the bodies, beliefs, and personhood. Surkis argues that powerful affective attachments to the intimate life of the family and fantasies about Algerian women and the sexual prerogatives of Muslim men, supposedly codified in the practices of polygamy and child marriage, shaped French theories and regulatory practices of Muslim law in fundamental and lasting ways. Women's legal status in particular came to represent the dense relationship between sex and sovereignty in the colony. This book also highlights the ways in which Algerians interacted with and responded to colonial law. Ultimately, this sweeping legal genealogy of French Algeria elucidates how "the Muslim question" in France became—and remains—a question of sex.