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Teresa Vernon
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FYI France: digital law libraries, the Cour de Cassation
Summer saw the establishment of a legal link -- Cornell Law School with the Cour de Cassation -- one opened July 17, in a Palais de Justice ceremony attended by no less than the US Chief Justice, John Roberts, and Associate Justices Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy, and Cornell grad Ruth Bader Ginsburg, among other US and European legal luminaries.
The "Cornell Center for Documentation on American Law", inaugurated by the ceremony plus Cornell's gift of 13,000 volumes of American case law, will be available henceforth at the Cour for consultation by French magistrates, and by participants in Cornell Law's summer institute in Paris.
Numerous French law libraries are online, now. The Bibliothèque Cujas, for example, offers extensive and very interesting digital research resources:
* Catalogue -- works, foreign theses, and mémoires
cataloged since 1952, French theses since 1987, a link
via SUDOC for locating entries at French universities
* Ressources électroniques -- online databases and cds,
see the extensive list at,
http://biu-cujas.univ-paris1.fr/principal/cdrom/majfev2007.inc
* Bibliothèque numérique -- an impressive and growing
list of online digital fulltexts:
Code général pour les Etats prussiens
Proudhon -- Cours de législation et de jurisprudence française
Grégoire IX, pape -- Decretales D. Gregorii Papae IX
Gratien -- Decretum gratiani emendatum et notationibus illustratum
Pierre Brillon -- Dictionnaire des arrêts ou jurisprudence
universelle des parlemens de France
Claude Le Prestre -- Questions notables de droit
Ivs Borvssico Brandenbvrgicvm Tomi primi
Ivs Borvssico Brandenbvrgicvm Tomi secundi
Barnabé Brisson -- Le Code Henri III
Favard de Langlade -- Le Code pénal
Pierre de Rebuffi -- Les Edicts et Ordonnances des Roys de France
Muyart de Vouglans -- Les lois criminelles de France
Cardin Le Bret -- Les oeuvres de Messire Cardin Le Bret
Julien Peleus -- Les questions illustres...
Boniface VIII, pape -- Liber sextus decretalium D.
Bonifacii Papae VIII
Lucien Sofue -- Nouveau recueil de plusieurs questions notables...
Louis Le Caron -- Responses du droict français
Nicolas Delamare -- Traité de la police
* Ressources Internet -- an already-vast & growing links list
* Revue de sommaires -- latest journal issues tables of contents,
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW
Volume 55, N°1, 2007 | Volume 54, Supplément 2006 |
ANNUAIRE FRANCAIS DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL
Volume 51, 2005 | Volume 50, 2004 |
ARAB LAW QUARTERLY
Volume 20, N° 4, 2006 | Volume 20, N°3, 2006 |
BULLETIN DE DROIT COMPARE DU TRAVAIL ET DE LA SECURITE SOCIALE
2006 | 2005 |
CAHIERS DE DROIT EUROPEEN
Volume 42, N° 5-6, 2006 | Volume 42, N°3-4, 2006 |
[etc.]
* and, Guides Cujas -- interesting & useful law research guides,
Guide Législation et travaux parlementaires depuis 1789
[chronological tables of legislation, with cites]
Droit français, guide des sources juridiques :
législation, jurisprudence, doctrine
[the structure of French law resources, with cites]
Utiliser les bases de données
[legal databases, both French and European law]
Bibliographie sélective sur le Traité de Rome
[Cujas references on the Treaty]
50ème anniversaire du Traité de Rome : 50 articles en ligne
[Article references]
Liber amicorum : Liste des mélanges 2001-2007
[Mélanges / festschrift collections recently received]
Guide d'histoire du droit
[guide to Roman & Ancient & Medieval Canon Law! -- a
wonderfully-designed & assembled flatfile list, with
links, of fascinating resources, hopefully available too
at the Cujas itself as an interactive database(?)]
Sites web des cabinets d'avocats En cours d'actualisation
[en travaux...]
Sites web des éditeurs juridiques français
[lengthy annotated list]
Sites web des éditeurs étrangers
[not so lengthy yet, but they're working on it]
Panorama de la presse juridique électronique
[law journal websites and links]
Sites web des Cours d'appels En cours d'actualisation
[en travaux...]
-- materials available in various formats, including html, php, pdf, rtf, Word -- see generally, http://biu-cujas.univ-paris1.fr/
The Cour de Cassation itself, too, has an online presence now:
catalog entries for works prior to 1950 may be seen via a link at,
http://www.courdecassation.fr/jurisprudence_publications_documentation_2/fonds_ancien_bibliotheque_9198.html
-- for example,
Auteur(s) Kelsen, Hans
Titre(s) La théorie juridique de la convention - texte imprimé /
par Hans Kelsen
Publié par [Paris] : [Recueil Sirey], [1940]
Description F. 34-76; 30 cm
Note(s) Fascicule factice constitué de photocopies
Don de la Bibliothèque de l'Ordre des
avocats à la Cour d'appel de Paris
Sujet(s) Droit, philosophie
Droit, théorie
Contrats et obligations, contrat, philosophie
Cote B 157(28)
-- and see generally,
http://www.courdecassation.fr/jurisprudence_publications_documentation_2/fonds_ancien_bibliotheque_9198.html
A general note, then:
So it is not a judicial research wilderness in France, online...
What has been lacking for a long time, though, has been an adequate means of doing comparative analysis. How to do good French law research from a law firm or library or courtroom located in the US? Also vice versa: from Paris or en province, wading through the voluminous and unfamiliar legal corridors of US "federal" and "state" and "municipal" case-law decisions...?
Since at least René David's popular last-century efforts, comparativist legal analysis has worried greatly over the dialogue de sourds which too often bedevils law, and things-cross-cultural generally, traveling from the Continental side of the Atlantic "pond" to the other and back again.
At the July Cour de Cassation event, Justice Ginsburg paid an elegant tribute to her former professor at Cornell Law, the comparativist Rudolf Schlesinger:
"He taught me the value of learning from other legal
systems and recognizing their common core as well as
their differences. I know he would applaud the
establishment of this center. This is a bright moment."
So, as Professor Schlesinger dreamed, perhaps our Globalizing & Digital era at last will make comparative analysis really possible... We have the information now, increasingly, and literally at our fingertips, via digital texts and links.
And more importantly, perhaps, now in the 2000s we have a growing "transnational" mindset (see Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 1964-; Nye & Keohane, Transnational Relations and World Politics, 1972; plus many more recent works). That is perhaps not a viewpoint the careful and always-precise Professor Schlesinger might have anticipated, back in the 1950s & 60s, or even would have embraced. But it enables practitioners in many professional arenas nowadays to think outside of their earlier "national"
boxes (see Anne Marie Slaughter, A New World Order, 2004).
I was one of his students too, some years after Justice Ginsburg, Professor Schlesinger still clear and precise and always an inspired teacher... He may have shrugged sceptically at internationalism, or at transnationalism; but viewing things comparatively, Schlesinger always pointed out to students, is at least a first step in really understanding them in the modern world, wherever subsequent steps might lead.
Kudos, then, to the Cour de Cassation and to Cornell, and to all the law librarians on both sides of the "pond" now hard at work enabling comparative analysis, and narrowing old cross-cultural gaps.
For more on the July 17 Cornell Law / Cour de Cassation event, see,
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July07/lawParisCover.html
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/newsrelease/
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/newsevents/eventdetails.cfm?id=1500
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070727/NEWS01/707270341/1002
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