
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2011
Pages: 21-43
Series: Law and Philosophy Library
ISBN (Hardback): 9789400715059
Full citation:
, "Legal interpretation in France under the reign of louis xvi", in: Interpretation of law in the age of enlightenment, Berlin, Springer, 2011


Legal interpretation in France under the reign of louis xvi
a review of the gazette des tribunaux
pp. 21-43
in: Yasutomo Morigiwa, Michael Stolleis, Jean-Louis Halperin (eds), Interpretation of law in the age of enlightenment, Berlin, Springer, 2011Abstract
This chapter examines judicial interpretation of the law during the final years of France's Ancien Regime: in particular, the 15 years of Louis XVI's reign that preceded the French Revolution. I shall explore this interpretation through the lens of a periodical law report from the period, called the Gazette des tribunaux. To this end, first it will be necessary to present this publication's political and legal context. Second, I shall analyse the evolution of methods of publishing judgments, before proposing hypotheses about the evolution of legal interpretation itself.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2011
Pages: 21-43
Series: Law and Philosophy Library
ISBN (Hardback): 9789400715059
Full citation:
, "Legal interpretation in France under the reign of louis xvi", in: Interpretation of law in the age of enlightenment, Berlin, Springer, 2011