Full reference: Rapport sur la responsabilité des sociétés et de leurs dirigeants en matière sociale et environnementale et examens des conséquences juridiques associées aux modifications apportées à l'article 1833 et 1835 du Code Civil, Haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris, 19th of June 2020 Read the report
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We sometimes believe Law is the new rules decided by the binding power of the State, rules which are only "positive law". This is false. Because current Law is the result of History (I), it is easy to see it through French institutions built in historical periods and conserved (II). But if it is true, how to really build Europe ? (III). I. Current Law is the result of History. Thus, the French law that governs us is the result of the history of French law, which itself was "polished" by the History of France. It cannot be understood if one ignores everything that happened before, because history is still alive in the present legal rules. The Roman law, that medieval law, the law of the Old Regime, the "intermediate law" of the French Revolution are all present. Therefore, the strong influences of the North American law after the Second World War and European integration can cause some problems. Certainly, the law as it is an autonomous normative system raised its neutrality with respect to historical facts, especialy with cases on Nazis' behavior or genocides, but it is not a simple question. II. This impregnation of the law by its History says that all French institutional organization is marked by its history, including politics, the primary role of the executive, the place given to Parliament, the little regard for the Constitution, and aggressive ignorance of the judge is rooted in the French history. The French judicial organization itself is the result of the history of France, by the duality of orders of courts, as are the judicial courts in the relationship between the seat and the floor. III. Today, we tend to undermine the relationship between Law and History. If we don't, how do we build Europe between such different Nations? Whereas Europe includes Common Law countries and countries of Civil Law? If we don't separate Law and History, then Europe should only be a market area, except in finding a common core to all European histories, that could be the respects of human beings.
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The "pinnacle" means the culmination of a successful issue. Here, the Code civil (French Civil Code) would be the point of perfection of French law. For many this qualification is required with evidence before this masterpiece of concision, practice and use of language. This implies a critique of the current French law, including a legislator that would had fallen very low. But the question nevertheless arises. Since before the Civil Code, there was a law that was not as unworthy. Moreover, after some general principles, all the civil law takes place into the Civil Code, family law, contract law, tort law, and so on. But the criminal law or public law aren't inserted in the book. Thus, it is rather the form, the art of writing the law that can be given to this term apogee Civil Code, not the substance that can bring so much praise to the Code civil because he never embraced the french law in its entirety. In addition, it is true that the form is the pinnacle of French law, but a French law that put the law should only be expressed through writing through codification rather than practices or casebased rules. We must therefore bow to bin assumptions before proclaiming that the Civil Code is the pinnacle of French law. Admitting it is rather the culmination of a certain conception of the law, a non indiscutable conception, he was a perfect and sublime event.
► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, Le transfert de la compétence normative d'édiction des lois et règlements en matière de droit civil, de la métropole aux institutions propres à la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Étude pour le Congrès de Nouvelle-Calédonie (The transfer of the normative power to enact laws and decrees in the field of civil law from metropolitan France to institutions specific to New Caledonia. Study for the Congress of New Caledonia), 2012, 88 p. - La confection de ce rapport a été faite à partir des travaux sur les textes, des lectures et des réflexions, mais aussi de nombreuses rencontres avec les parties prenantes sur place. Le séjour et la remise du rapport ont donné lieu à de nombreuses interventions publiques. L'on peut notamment se référer à la conférence Le transfert du droit civil, une opportunité pour la Nouvelle-Calédonie, donnée au Congrès de Nouvelle-Calédonie. En outre, de nombreuses interviewes ont été données à la télévision, dans le presse écrite et à la radio. Lire la table des matière du rapport. Lire le rapport dans son intégralité. Lire un interview dans la presse à propos de ce travail. Voir la conférence donnée en métropole à ce propos. Lire le résumé du rapport ci-dessous.
