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Custom, Law, and Monarchy explores how law evolved in early modern France, from an amalgam of customs, Roman and canon law, royal edicts, and judicial decisions, to the unified Civil Code of 1804. In exploring the history of this codification of law, Marie Seong-Hak Kim lays out a new way of understanding French history.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Custom in Late Medieval France
- 3: The Redaction of Customs
- 4: The Reformation of Customs
- 5: La Coutume and la Législation
- 6: The Idea of "Our French Law"
- 7: The Crown and the Constitution
- 8: De la coutume au Code civil
- 9: Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Marie Seong-Hak Kim is a historian and jurist. Her work concentrates on France, Korea, Japan, legal history, and comparative law. She is the recipient of the National Endowment of Humanities Fellowship, the Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant, and the Abe Foundation Fellowship. She was a Fellow of the Collegium de Lyon, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Recht als Kultur. As a native of South Korea, she graduated from Ewha Womans University and received her PhD and JD from the University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Bar.
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Custom, Law, and Monarchy explores how law evolved in early modern France, from an amalgam of customs, Roman and canon law, royal edicts, and judicial decisions, to the unified Civil Code of 1804. In exploring the history of this codification of law, Marie Seong-Hak Kim lays out a new way of understanding French history.
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This stimulating book provides a thorough and detailed history of customs and of the construct of national law.
