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16 July 2024
BOOK: Matthias SCHMOECKEL, Das Recht der Reformation in Frankreich und die Vollendung des modernen Staates (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), 345 p., ISBN 978-3-16-163298-3
22 July 2021
Paper: Gregoire BIGOT. La théorie de l’État en France face à son histoire. Pouvoirs, nº 177
The Theory of the State in France in Historical Perspective
The purpose of the theory of the state, which emerged in France under the Third Republic, is to provide a judicial definition of the state so that political relations may be resolved on the basis of legal relations. A priori a-historical, it has not stood the test of time so well. The judicialization of the state was practically inexistant before it was reinvented by scholars. From the Middle Ages, it was the sovereign incarnate (the king) or the sovereign desincarnate (the crown) that controlled sovereignty and the law. In 1789, it was the nation alone which embodied sovereignty, whereas rights partook of the foundation of politics. Because liberal constitutionalism does not take the state into consideration, the theorisation of the state cannot be a politically neutral operation.
Gregoire Bigot is professor of legal history at the Université de Nantes
More information: https://www.cairn.info/revue-pouvoirs-2021-2-page-5.htm
21 July 2021
PAPER: Santi ROMANO. O Estado moderno e a sua crise. Revista Brasileira de Estudos Políticos, 2021/1
Santi Romano (1875-1947) was professor of administrative law at the University of Rome La Sapienza and president of the Italian Council of State.
More information: https://pos.direito.ufmg.br/rbep/index.php/rbep/article/view/886
26 May 2020
BOOK: Maurizio FIORAVANTI, Il cerchio e l'ellisse. I fondamenti dello Stato costituzionale (Bari: Editori Laterza, 2020). ISBN: 9788858141229, pp. 120, € 15,00.

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