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Sourcebook on French Law (Cavendish Publishing Sourcebook Series)
Sourcebook on French Law - Cavendish Publishing Sourcebook Series Author:Pollard This unique work presents over 350 French legal source materials, including the Constitution and related documents, extracts from codes, statutes and regulations, decisions of the courts and notes by leading French academics and practitioners. The methodology is illustrated by the substantive content of five chapters, dealing, by way of e... more »xplanatory text and source materials, with constitutional law, judicial review of administrative action, the foundation of contracts, civil liability for traffic accidents, and divorce, grounds and consequences. The chapters begin with an introduction, explaining the French legal system, and end with a bibliography giving suggestions for further reading. This new edition takes account of considerable judicial activism relating, inter alia, to the current concerns in contemporary France with the sensitive issues of immigration, asylum, deportation and nationality, the freedom to express adherence to a religious belief and the principle of Laicite in State education, and the problems raised by new situations demanding an analysis of the relationship between the 1985 statute on traffic accidents and the common law of the Code civil.« less