La Disposition préliminaire du Code civil du Québec, le droit commun et les principes généraux du droit

La Disposition préliminaire du Code civil du Québec fait appel à la notion de droit commun. Cependant, de quel droit commun s’agit-il ? L’auteur constate la multiplicité historique des droits communs de l’Europe, y compris le ius commune, la common law et le droit commun français. Ce dernier serait devenu transnational en caractère, ayant le Code civil français comme élément contemporain important, mais comprenant aussi les principes généraux du droit. Le Code civil se situerait donc à l’intérieur d’une grande tradition juridique transnationale.The Preliminary Provision of the Civil Code of Québec refers to the concept of jus commune. Yet to just which jus commune is it referring ? The author reviews the historic multiplicity of jura communia in Europe, including the jus commune, the common law and the general law of France. The latter has become transnational in character with the French Civil Code as an important contemporary element, but also including the general principles of law. As such, the Civil code should thus take its place within the framework of a much broader transnational legal tradition

Pour une Cour d'appel

Le phénomène de l'inflation judiciaire est bien connu. Au-delà des causes traditionnelles de cet état, l'auteur fait état d'un principe d'inspiration intellectuelle : celui de la surcharge des cours. Cette approche permet d'analyser plus justement la situation et de proposer une solution au problème.Judicial inflation is a well-known phenomenon. In addition to the traditional causes of the situation the author raises an intellectual principle : that of overloaded courts. This element makes it possible to analyze the situation with greater accuracy and to recommand a solution to the problem

Méthodologie conflictuelle et protection de l'incapable étranger

The question of the law applicable to the protection of incapable foreign domiciliaries has generated much controversy in private international law. Arguments have favoured application either of the law of the foreign domicile or of the local law, yet neither solution has been consistently adopted. The author is of the view that such controversy amongst proponents of competing yet justifiable solutions is immanent in law and that both solutions must be seen as representing the private international law of incapable persons. He therefore argues in favour of a disjunctive reference of such questions to one or the other of the two laws in conflict, depending on which best serves the objective of protection of the incapable. Such a solution is incompatible with the unilateral application of the law of the forum, and notions of governmental interest or laws of « immediate application » are therefore inapplicable

Une justice de masse? Réflexions sur la responsabilité civile en Amérique du nord

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The Cosmopolitan State

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