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La doctrine québécoise se construit dans un contexte influencé par l'effort de normalisation des rapports sociaux qu'est le Code civil du Québec. Afin d'analyser ce rôle particulier de la doctrine, l'auteur cherche d'abord à établir une définition de la doctrine, qui constituerait l'ensemble de la littérature juridique émanant des facultés de droit et analysant de façon critique la loi et la jurisprudence. Établissant un parallèle avec la doctrine française, l'auteur explique le...
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L'objectif de cet article est de rapprocher les difficultés du classement juridique qui surgissent lorsque le sujet est considéré d’un point de vue purement spatial, c 'est-à-dire une perspective à deux ou trois dimensions. Le point controversé est de savoir si la complexité dynamique du raisonnement juridique peut être représentée au moyen d'un processus de classement statique. Le problème des approches traditionnelles au classement est que bien que le raisonnement juridique utilise des...
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On the past few years, an important legal debate has been raging, the full effects of which many lawyers have not yet felt. I am referring to the taxonomy debate and, specifically, the attempts by the late Professor Peter Birks and (the mainly academic) supporters and advocates of his and similar views to impose a coherent and logical taxonomy upon private (common) law. Much more attention should be paid to sound taxonomy, it is argued. This great project has been little noticed outside the...
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Professor Peoples reports the results of a study finding that the opinions and performance of modern legal researchers do not support the traditional notion that print digests are the tool of choice for researching legal rules while electronic databases are best suited for finding cases discussing unique factual situations. Tomorrow's lawyers are unaware of some common shortcomings of electronic research and do not possess the strategies to compensate for them. Law librarians must become...
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Historiquement, avant 1804, le code se présente sous une forme double : recueil de sources formelles de droit, le plus souvent de législation, d’une part, fusion de l’ensemble des sources du droit en un texte nouveau consacré à une branche du droit, d’autre part. Ce n’est qu’aux XVIe et XVII e siècles que la seconde acception se manifeste en Europe occidentale, les siècles antérieurs suivant l’exemple romain du recueil de sources. Il faut attendre le XVIII e siècle, en Bavière pour que...
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The creation of a law classification schedule at the Library of Congress has been under development since the late 1930s and has continued to the present. The law schedules have been published over the past thirty-five years. Class K delineates all laws and legal systems on global, regional, and jurisdictional levels and provides links between historical and religious systems as well. This article also discusses historical and political aspects of the development of law classification.
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When invited by counsel in the 1947 case of Read v. J. Lyons & Co' to rationalise the law of tort, Lord Macmillan's response was to say that it was not the House of Lords' "task to rationalise the law of England" since arguments "based on legal consistency are apt to mislead for the common law is a practical code adapted to deal with the manifold diversities of human life, and as a great American judge [Holmes] has reminded us, 'the life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience'...
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Given this focus on classification, a useful way of examining the significance of these and similar books - and of doctrinal scholarship generally - is by assessing the books in the light of certain general questions about the role of classification in law, in particular questions about the role of classification when it is done in the traditional or doctrinal sense. Three questions about classification in law will be addressed: (I) Why (classify)?, (II) How (to classify)?, and (III) What...