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Jean Carbonnier

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Biography

Jean Carbonnier (1908-2003) was a famous french jurist who was known for his work on Civil Law.

Professor at the University of Poitiers from 1937 to 1955, then at the Sorbonne until 1976, dean Carbonnier was the author of a notable Treatise on Civil Law which is still a reference on the subject. He inspired many reforms in family law, especially on the subject of divorce, where he was the author of the 1975 law modernising divorce in France. The law on incapable persons (1968) and the 2001 inheritance law proposed with Pierre Catala bear his influence.

A pluridisciplinary jurist, his writings are influenced by the sociology of law and the philosophy of law. He created the Laboratory for Legal Sociology at Paris II University in 1968.

A Protestant, he promoted legal sociology as a complementary and useful approach to understanding positive law.

He condemned Hans Kelsen's dogmatic positivism, which has that law is in codes.

In his work "Law and the passion of law" ("Droit et la passion du droit"), he puts forth the theory of "non-law", according to which in society, there are unspoken rules that are often stronger than codified rules, such as politeness.


Works

  • Droit civil: introduction à l'étude du droit et droit des personnes, 27 éditions
  • Droit civil, tome 1 : Introduction, Les personnes, personnalité, incapacités, personnes morales
  • Droit civil, tome 2 : la Famille, l'enfant, le couple
  • Droit Civil, tome 3 : les Biens
  • Droit civil, tome 4 : les Obligations
  • Droit et passion du droit : Sous la Ve République
  • Essais sur les lois
  • Flexible droit : pour une sociologie du droit sans rigueur
  • Sociologie juridique
  • Droit et passion du droit sous la Vième République, coll. « Forum », Flammarion, 1995
  • Flexible droit, pour une sociologie du droit sans rigueur, 10ième, éd., LGDJ, 2001

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  • Raymond Verdier, « Jean Carbonnier, historien-sociologue du pénal et du non-droit pénal », in Jacqueline Hoareau-Dodinau et Pascal Texier (dir.), « La peine. Discours, pratiques, représentations », Limoges, PULIM, Université de Limoges, Cahiers de l’Institut d’Anthropologie Judirique, n° 12, 2005, p. 255-267
  • Francesco Saverio Nisio, Jean Carbonnier : regards sur le droit et le non-droit, Paris, Dalloz, 2005, XII-201 p.
  • Céline Bekerman, "L'oeuvre doctrinale de Jean Carbonnier", Mémoire D.E.A. Propriété littéraire, artistique et industrielle, Université Paris II, 2005