We examine the direct and indirect relationship between ethnic diversity and deforestation for a group of developing countries over a period from 2001 to 2015. We measure deforestation through loss of forest cover and ethnic diversity through ethnic (religious) fractionalization and...

The paper addresses the issue of the impact of asymmetric information on risk aversion of litigant parties in a model à la Bebchuk. First we study the case where the plaintif is the informed party, and characterize the equilibrium with and without a pretrial negociation round. Then, we focuse...

Les auteurs tentent de trouver l’espace juridique qui permet d’aider à l’harmonisation de deux attachements juridiquement : celui relatif à l’espace national et celui ancré dans l’esprit nouveau de la citoyenneté européenne. La voie commune est celle de l’élection au suffrage...

Conceived as a basic organizing principle of the democratic societies, the rule of law consecrated itself in France by its organizational principles (the existence of judicial mechanisms that subject the administrative and legislative acts to the law), formal principles (the existence of a...

By establishing the matter of harm within constitutionality along with the revision of July 23, 2008, the French Constitution thus brings additions to the control of constitutionality regarding laws, which up to this moment have been fallen behind in what concerns the European standards of the...

In the first decades of the twentieth century, the study of human heredity consisted of the applied science of eugenics and the theoretical science of genetics. Geneticists studied the mechanisms of heredity, while eugenicists sought to apply this knowledge to manage society. Surrogacy is an...

The rise of the modern constitutional state as a process of secularization (E-W. Böckenförde) was accomplished in the historical and ideal framework of the Enlightment. This state can be regarded as the result of a scientifically experiment centred on the human individual and directed against...

French Abstract: Parmi les sciences sociales, c'est la science économique qui a fait les progrès les plus prometteurs pour le droit. Il y a plusieurs raisons à cela: elle dispose d'un cadre théorique bien développé (micro-économie); elle propose actuellement l'application la plus avancée...

English Abstract: This paper uses a comparative legal history approach to examine the “private” law of the family in France, Italy, and the major English-speaking countries in order to clarify the fundamental notions of the family which predated the welfare state. It is suggested that a...