The role of the court expert has changed much since the 19thcentury, not only in terms of its organisation and procedural rules, but also in its technical demands and legitimacy. The role of experts in economics and finance – those specialising in accounting, valuation, management, corporate...

Le développement des normes privées est une des manifestations de la banalisation du "soft law". Une fois identifié, concrètement, on constate qu'il s'agit d'un outil qui n'est pas si inhabituel, mais qui demeure incertain quant à son effectivité.

Economic Analysis of Law versus Institutionnalism. A “in situation” comparison This paper compares two approaches of law economics concerning the same empirical object - the United States employees savings schemes – on one hand within the framework of mainstream Law and Economics and on...

The work comparing the French and the German industrial relations systems usually contrasts the French state interventionism with the German tradition of an autonomous partnership among strong actors. These stereotypes might however be challenged by a further comparative analysis of the business...

All Courts rule ex-post, after most economic decisions are sunk. This might generate a time-inconsistency problem. From an ex-ante perspective, Courts will have the (ex-post) temptation to be excessively lenient. This observation is at the root of the principle of stare decisis. Stare decisis...

The relationship between law and economic development remains enigmatic. Broadly speaking, there is no doubt that legal mechanisms for social control (or ‘institutions’, to use North's words) play a major role. Nevertheless, the impact of legal organization on economic development has not...

This article aims to present the research conducted in recent years by a multidisciplinary team on the questions of land-use conflict, and to reveal the methodology of survey and data collection, as well as the structure of the resulting database. We first define the scope of our study by...