legal theory
French Legal Interpretation Methods
The Exegetical School The exegetical method was the dominant approach to statutory interpretation in nineteenth-century France. The École de l’Exégèse, associated with jurists such as Charles …
French Legal Theory
The School of Exegesis The École de l’exégèse dominated French legal thought throughout the nineteenth century, reflecting the confidence in codified law that followed the Napoleonic …
The French Exegetical School: Textual Interpretation of the Civil Code
The French exegetical school (École de l’exégèse) was the dominant approach to legal interpretation in 19th-century France. The school emphasised a strict textual interpretation of the …
The French Realist School of Legal Thought
The Critique of Exegetical Method The French realist movements arose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a reaction against the dominant École de l’exégèse (School of …