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It is therefore necessary to take the statement for granted: the law expresses "the spirit of a people." We want to believe, since Savigny stated it
Following the great author does not avoid explaining the meaning of such a statement. Expressing the historical conception of law means that all legal events are the result of a culture of a "people", which has been built over the centuries. Thus, because a French "people" are, there is a French law that reflects this.

If this is true, then the implications of this fact are considerable. First, in order for a law to be effective, coherent and applied, it must correspond to the "spirit" of the people to whom it applies. The legislature and the courts must make it part of their art, not to rush a historical movement, do not ignore it,but to  adopt the pace. Therefore, foreign legal techniques cannot be welcome.
The most important sources of law are the most spontaneous, that is to say, those in which people forge through the centuries of usage and customs. The law written on a white sheet of paper is a mistake, unless it is itself covered by a long period after.
The legislator and the judge should have taken to the method of knowing the spirit of their society in which they move: the sociology and history cease to be ancillary to become positive law. In this, the common law rooted in its "stare decisis" better expresses this conception than does the system of Civil Law.

But more importantly, there has to be a "people" whose mind law would collect. As rightly pointed out by the German Constitutional Court in 2009, there is no "European people". So how can we build Europe? While the French, British, German, Italian, Spanish, peoples etc. have such a different mind, and that expansion now brings us to the Slavic soul?

Introduction au droit.  The book of Muriel Fabre-Magnan is out. This is great. The law holds the attention of everyone all the time.

Because daily life is full of law and there is the awareness of this. Because world live has a turn increasingly legal.

Thus, the interest in the law is new, or at least has grown.

But the law is off-putting for anyone who didn't study, who doesn't practice. This mass, which is enormous and as inert, seems belch through dramatic cases or convictions shattering. Thus, the desire to discover and to understand law seems meet a sort of end of inadmissibility, seems to be hampered by the legal matter itself.

That is why everyone must buy Introduction au droit (Introduction to Law), the book (written in French) in the collection "Que sais-je ?" ("What can I know?"), by Muriel Fabre-Magnan.

By reading this book of 124 pages, one can understand what may represent the law, not only for every day but also the law in society in a civilized world.

The law is the key to a civilized system. But in a world which seems to be governed by the game of forces, the law is absent or just facade. Thus, reading, you'd think that the law is in fact very little ...

Read a presentation of the new edition of the Muriel Fabre-Magnan book : Introduction au droit.

La Cour suprême des Etats-Unis vient de rendre un arrêt très important, "Hobby Lobby", le 30 juin 2014.

Elle permet à une entreprise, qui a contracté une assurance de prise en charge des dépenses de santé de ses employés, de ne pas faire fonctionner celle-ci pour les soins et médicaments dont l'usage est contraire aux préceptes chrétiens.

En effet, la Cour suprême affirme que l'entreprise est une "personne comme une autre", qui a des convictions personnelles, ici des convictions religieuses.

Une telle solution, affirmée pour ce cas particulier, est inquiétante non seulement pour cette situation-là, mais si on l'étend à d'autres situations analogues. 

Référence complète : Vivant, M.( dir.), Droit et économie de la propriété intellectuelle, coll. "Droit et Économie", LGDJ - Lextenso, 2014, 194 p.

Il s'agit du 24ième volume de la collection "Droit et Économie".

Sous la direction de Michel Vivant, le fil de l'ouvrage reprend ce qui avait été le principe des conférences organisées par Marie-Anne Frison-Roche avec Guy Canivet à la Cour de cassation, à l'initiative de la Chaire Régulation, à savoir prendre un objet concret, sur lequel se posent une compétence d'une part économique, d'autre part juridique.

Ici, la propriété intellectuelle s'y prête particulièrement bien, puisque celle-ci est déjà un mixte de droit et d''économie. Elle est de plus en plus. On en viendrait bientôt à oublier que cela fût du droit pour croire qu'il ne s'agit que d'une branche de l'économie, à travers le souci de l'innovation notamment.

Dans cet ouvrage, c'est donc sous le double regard du droit et de l'économie que les enjeux de la propriété intellectuelle sont posés.

Lire la quatrième de couverture.

Lire la table des matières.

Consulter l'ensemble de la collection dans laquelle l'ouvrage a été publié.

The "pinnacle" means the culmination of a successful issue. Here, the Code civil (French Civil Code) would be the point of perfection of French law. For many this qualification is required with evidence before this masterpiece of concision, practice and use of language. This implies a critique of the current French law, including a legislator that would had fallen very low.
But the question nevertheless arises. Since before the Civil Code, there was a law that was not as unworthy.

Moreover, after some general principles, all the civil law takes place into the Civil Code, family law, contract law, tort law, and so on. But the criminal law or public law aren't inserted in the book.
Thus, it is rather the form, the art of writing the law that can be given to this term apogee Civil Code, not the substance that can bring so much praise to the Code civil because he never embraced the french law in its entirety.
In addition, it is true that the form is the pinnacle of French law, but a French law that put the law should only be expressed through writing through codification rather than practices or casebased rules.
We must therefore bow to bin assumptions before proclaiming that the Civil Code is the pinnacle of French law. Admitting it is rather the culmination of a certain conception of the law, a non indiscutable conception, he was a perfect and sublime event.

The regulatory authority of the North American telecommunications (Federal Communications Commission - FCC) adopted a position 5 August 2014 to admit that the service providers charge users for the service of priority access to content. For some commentators, allowing this monetization, the FCC has "killed" the "net neutrality".

Immediately, President Barack Obama is strongly opposed to this position on behalf of the principle known as "net neutrality."

The Washington Post, in its presentation of this reaction of the President, described it as "populist".

Basically, it comes to choosing whether you prefer to favor companies that produce content and containing or to favor search engines. It is true that the search engines, whose business model relies heavily on the legal principle of "net neutrality" are American firms, like Google. On the other hand, many companies that carry the content and can therefore monetize the service of access to a priority basis are divided to more evenly around the world, including being located in Europe.

In its judgment of 23 July 2014, MM. B., A. et C., the Conseil d'Etat (French Council of State) shall transmit a  Question prioritaire de constitutionnalité - QPC (Priority Question of Constitutionality) to the Conseil constitutionnel  (French Constitutional Council) about the compliance of the procedural organization of the Cour de discipline budgétaire et financière - CDBF (French Court of fiscal and financial discipline) in terms of constitutional principle impartiality.

Indeed, the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Council has incorporated in the constitutional corpus the principle of impartiality, objectively designed   as judicial jurisprudence and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights have done and have imposed the organs exercising power sanction must give to see their impartiality (definition of the "objective impartiality") to third parties who must have confidence in this body which has power to impose sanctions.

Political power has often difficulties, or takes a long time to admit the principles of law, such as express the judges.

So it was quite certain that the penalty proceedings held before the Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et de la Poste -ARCEP  (French Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Post, as the investigation body and the judgment body were not sufficiently distinct crumpled the constitutional principle of impartiality.

It was acquired about 15 years. Yet the organization has continued.

It has been enough that an operator has been sanctioned. He used the procedure of Question Prioritairre de Constitutionnalité -Q.P.C.  Priority Question of Constitutionality) and Numéricable July 5, 2013 decision by the Constitutional Council came to declare that any sanction proceedings before ARCEP unconstitutional, because of objective procedural partialité, thus causing difficulty to the regulator.

It took until the 0rdonnance of March 12, 2014 and finally the decree of 1st August 2014 to organize an efficient sanctions procedure, making this time an intern wall within the ARCEP between the services responsible for the instruction and those which are responsible for judging.

The great judge Pierre Drai used to say: "Ne pas respecter le droit coûte cher (Do not respect the law is expensive)".

We see here that this is true also for the Government which writes laws and regulations. So, for months, the regulator has been without power, to the delight of the operators, who often are tacticians or turbulent.