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- Title
Power, Not Progress: An Alternative Reading of L'Hôpital's Legal Reforms.
- Authors
KESSLER, AMALIA D.
- Abstract
The article discusses the contributions of French jurist and chancellor Michel de L'Hôpital to the development of French legal theory in the 16th century. It offers a critique of the article "Civil Law and Civil War: Michel de L'Hôpital and the Ideals of Legal Unification in Sixteenth-Century France" by Marie Seong-Hak Kim, published elsewhere in the same issue. It is argued that the practical impact of L'Hôpital's work was to increase the power of the French monarchy, which is less admirable than the high-minded pursuit of legal unification for the sake of peace which L'Hôpital described himself as pursuing.
- Subjects
FRANCE; L'HOSPITAL, Michel de, 1507-1573; 16TH century French history; LAW reform; FRENCH monarchy; HISTORICAL jurisprudence; KIM, Marie Seong-Hak; LEGAL history
- Publication
Law & History Review, 2010, Vol 28, Issue 3, p837
- ISSN
0738-2480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0738248010000659