Legal Social History of the Judicial Institutions in Modern France

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: ISHII MITSUKI 名古屋大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 教授 (60176146)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 近代法 / 司法史 / フランス / 治安判事

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research tends to focus on the modern French legal and judicial institutions from the viewpoint of the legal social history, particularly taking account of the French jurists (juges de paix, for example) from the French Revolution until the middle of the twentieth century. Generally, the image of the modern law is considered as the dispute settlement by the court trial applying the law in the code-book to all cases, but French people preferred the court-mediated settlement at the initiative of the judge of the peace in the nineteenth century France. In this perspective, we can make a step toward the comparative legal history.

Free Research Field

法制史