De la prudence à la critique : quelques avatars du modèle dans la comparaison des droits publics (fin du xixe – début xxe siècles)

Abstract

Several French lawyers specialized in public law did not rally to the general promotion of transplantation or unification of legal systems defended by the promoters of the 1900 Congrès de droit comparé held in Paris. According to them, the practical effect of comparison should not be treated without prudence in public law, because foreign constitutional or administrative experiences are not to be understood without their cultural of political frame and appear as anti-models. A more open and critical comparison developps in public law in the 1920s and 1930s.

Keywords

• comparative law
• legal model
• French Third Republic
• public law
• transplantation