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Comprises biographical portraits of leading jurists and judges, assessing the influence of their Christianity.
List of contents
Introduction Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo; 1. Ivo de Chartres (Yves de Chartres) Christof Rolker; 2. Stephen of Tournai (Étienne de Tournai) Ken Pennington; 3. Guillaume Durand Orazio Condorelli; 4. Jacques de Revigny Paul J. du Plessis; 5. Pierre de Belleperche Yves Mausen; 6. Charles Dumoulin Wim Decock; 7. John Calvin (Jean Calvin) John Witte, Jr; 8. Jacques Cujas Xavier Prevost; 9. Francois Hotman Mathias Schmoeckel; 10. Hugues Doneau Christian Hattenhauer; 11. Jean Bodin Daniel Lee; 12. Jean Domat David Gilles; 13. Henri François d'Aguesseau Isabelle Brancourt; 14. Robert-Joseph Pothier Olivier Descamps; 15. Jean-Etienne-Marie Portalis Nicolas Laurent-Bonne; 16. Alexis de Tocqueville Mary Ann Glendon; 17. Paul Viollet Anne-Sophie Chambost; 18. Paul Fournier Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudemet and Rafael Domingo; 19. Raymond Saleilles Marco Sabbioneti; 20. Maurice Hauriou Julien Barroche; 21. Léon Duguit M. C. Mirow; 22. Georges Ripert Frédéric Audren; 23. Jacques Maritain William Sweet; 24. Robert Schuman Rafael Domingo; 25. Gabriel Le Bras Kathleen Cushing; 26. Jean Carbonnier Laetitia Guerlain; 27. Michel Villey Luisa Brunori; Index.
About the author
Olivier Descamps is Professor of law and legal history at the Panthéon-Assas University in Paris, France, and Managing Director of the Institute of Legal History of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. A specialist in legal history, canon law, and comparative law, he has authored or edited five books, including Les sources du droit à l'aune de la pratique (2018) and Le statut du magistrat (forthcoming). Professor Descamps is coeditor of the Revue historique de droit français et étranger, one of the leading journals in legal history worldwide.Rafael Domingo is the Spruill Family Research Professor at Emory University, Atlanta, and ICS Professor of Law at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain. A specialist in legal history, legal theory, ancient Roman law, and comparative law, he has authored or edited more than twenty books, including The New Global Law (Cambridge, 2010), God and the Secular Legal System (Cambridge, 2016), Roman Law: An Introduction (2018), and Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Cambridge, 2018).
Summary
This volume examines the lives of twenty-seven French jurists from the vantage point of their professed Christian faith. By studying the contributions these French jurists have made over the centuries, this volume illustrates the rich and enduring interactions between Christianity and law and provides a rich interdisciplinary methodology.
