Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Histories
- 1 Classical Athens’ Radical Democratic “Rule of Law”
- 2 Rechtsstaat versus the Rule of Law
- 3 État de droit: The Gallicization of the Rechtsstaat
- 4 Islamic Conceptions of the Rule of Law
- 5 Empires and the Rule of Law: Arbitrary Justice and Imperial Legal Ordering
- Part III Moralities
- Part IV Pathologies
- Part V Trajectories
- Part VI Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - État de droit: The Gallicization of the Rechtsstaat
from Part II - Histories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Histories
- 1 Classical Athens’ Radical Democratic “Rule of Law”
- 2 Rechtsstaat versus the Rule of Law
- 3 État de droit: The Gallicization of the Rechtsstaat
- 4 Islamic Conceptions of the Rule of Law
- 5 Empires and the Rule of Law: Arbitrary Justice and Imperial Legal Ordering
- Part III Moralities
- Part IV Pathologies
- Part V Trajectories
- Part VI Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter will analyse the discourse in France on the relatively new French expression État de droit.1 After an unsuccessful first rise in its use at the beginning of the twentieth century (1907–1930s), the term has since 1977 progressively informed the language of French constitutional law scholars and even penetrated the language of specialists of other legal disciplines, politicians, journalists, and, to some extent, of ordinary citizens.
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