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French legal culture, from the Middle Ages to the present day, has had an impressive inﬂuence on legal norms and institutions that have emerged in Europe and the Americas, as well as in Asian and African countries. This volume examines the lives of twenty-seven key legal thinkers in French history, with a focus on how their Christian faith and ideals were a factor in framing the evolution of French jurisprudence. Professors Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo bring together this diverse group of distinguished legal scholars and historians to provide a unique comparative study of law and religion that will be of value to scholars, lawyers, and students. The collaboration among French and non-French scholars, and the diversity of international and methodological perspectives, gives this volume its own unique character and value to add to this fascinating series.

Olivier Descamps is a professor of law and legal history at the Panthéon-Assas University in Paris, France, and managing director of the Institute of Legal History of the French National Center for Scientiﬁc Research (CNRS) in Paris. A specialist in legal history, canon law, and comparative law, he has authored or edited ﬁve books, including Les sources du droit à l’aune de la pratique (2018) and Le statut du magistrat (2019). Professor Descamps is coeditor of the Revue histor- ique de droit français et étranger, one of the leading journals in legal history worldwide. Rafael Domingo is the Spruill Family Research Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, USA, and ICS Professor of Law at the University of Navarra, Spain. A specialist in legal history, legal theory, ancient Roman law, and comparative law, he has authored or edited more than twenty books, including The New Global Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010), God and the Secular Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Roman Law: An Introduction (2018), and Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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Law and Christianity

Series Editor John Witte, Jr., Emory University

Editorial Board Nigel Biggar, University of Oxford Marta Cartabia, Italian Constitutional Court / University of Milano-Bicocca Sarah Coakley, University of Cambridge Norman Doe, Cardiff University Rafael Domingo, Emory University / University of Navarra Brian Ferme, Marcianum, Venice Richard W. Garnett, University of Notre Dame Robert P. George, Princeton University Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard University Kent Greenawalt, Columbia University Robin Grifﬁth-Jones, Temple Church, London / King’s College London Gary S. Hauk, Emory University R. H. Helmholz, University of Chicago Mark Hill QC, Inner Temple, London / Cardiff University Wolfgang Huber, Bishop Emeritus, United Protestant Church of Germany / Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, and Stellenbosch Michael W. McConnell, Stanford University John McGuckin, Union Theological Seminary Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame Jeremy Waldron, New York University Michael Welker, University of Heidelberg

The Law and Christianity series publishes cutting-edge work on Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian contributions to public, private, penal, and procedural law and legal theory. The series aims to promote deep Christian reﬂection by leading scholars on the fundamentals of law and politics, to build further ecumenical legal understanding across Christian denominations, and to link and amplify the diverse and sometimes isolated Christian legal voices and visions at work in the academy. Works collected by the series include groundbreaking monographs, historical and thematic anthologies, and translations by leading scholars around the globe.

Books in the Series

Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium Philip L. Reynolds English Ecclesiastical Lawyers: A History of Their Life and Work R. H. Helmholz Law, Love, and Freedom: From the Sacred to the Secular Joshua Neoh Great Christian Jurists in French History Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo

Church Law in Modernity: Toward a Theory of Canon Law Between Nature and Culture Judith Hahn Common Law and Natural Law in America: From the Puritans to the Legal Realists Andrew Forsyth Care for the World: Laudato Si’ and Catholic Social Thought in an Era of Climate Crisis edited by Frank Pasquale Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties John Witte, Jr. Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History Rafael Domingo and Javier Martínez-Torrón Under Caesar’s Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution edited by Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah God and the Illegal Alien Robert W. Heimburger Christianity and Family Law John Witte, Jr. and Gary S. Hauk Christianity and Natural Law Norman Doe Great Christian Jurists in English History edited by Mark Hill, QC and R. H. Helmholz Agape, Justice, and Law edited by Robert F. Cochran, Jr. and Zachary R. Calo Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church Matthew J. Tuininga God and the Secular Legal System Rafael Domingo How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments Philip L. Reynolds Christianity and Freedom (Volume I: Historical Perspectives, Volume II: Contemporary Perspectives) edited by Timothy Samuel Shah and Allen D. Hertzke The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy John Witte, Jr. The Distinctiveness of Religion in American Law Kathleen A. Brady Pope Benedict XVI’s Legal Thought Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini

Great Christian Jurists in French History

Edited by OLIVIER DESCAMPS Panthéon-Assas University

RAFAEL DOMINGO Emory University and University of Navarra

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To Jean Gaudemet (1908–2001), in memory

Contents

List of Contributors page xiii Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1 Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo

1 Ivo of Chartres (Yves de Chartres) 19 Christof Rolker

2 Stephen of Tournai (Étienne de Tournai) 35 Kenneth Pennington

3 Guillaume Durand 52 Orazio Condorelli

4 Jacques de Revigny 71 Paul J. du Plessis

5 Pierre de Belleperche 85 Yves Mausen

6 Charles Dumoulin 97 Wim Decock

7 John Calvin 117 John Witte, Jr.

8 Jacques Cujas 134 Xavier Prévost

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9 François Hotman 149 Mathias Schmoeckel

10 Hugues Doneau 173 Christian Hattenhauer

11 Jean Bodin 191 Daniel Lee

12 Jean Domat 210 David Gilles

13 Henri François d’Aguesseau 228 Isabelle Brancourt

14 Robert-Joseph Pothier 245 Olivier Descamps

15 Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis 259 Nicolas Laurent-Bonne

16 Alexis de Tocqueville 276 Mary Ann Glendon

17 Paul Viollet 293 Anne-Sophie Chambost

18 Paul Fournier 309 Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudemet and Rafael Domingo

19 Raymond Saleilles 324 Marco Sabbioneti

20 Maurice Hauriou 342 Julien Barroche

21 Léon Duguit 358 M. C. Mirow

22 Georges Ripert 372 Frédéric Audren

Contents xi

23 Jacques Maritain 387 William Sweet

24 Robert Schuman 404 Rafael Domingo

25 Gabriel Le Bras 421 Kathleen G. Cushing

26 Jean Carbonnier 433 Laetitia Guerlain

27 Michel Villey 447 Luisa Brunori

Index 465

Contributors

Frédéric Audren, Research Professor, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); and Researcher at the European Study Center (CEE- CNRS), Paris, France. Julien Barroche, Research Fellow, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilization (INALCO), Paris, France. Brigitte Basdevant-Gaudemet, Professor Emerita of Law and Religion, University of Paris-Saclay, Paris, France. Isabelle Brancourt, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for History of Repre- sentations and Thoughts in Modernities (IHRIM), French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Lyon, France. Luisa Brunori, Research Fellow, Center for Judicial History, University of Lille, France. Anne-Sophie Chambost, Professor of Law and Legal History, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France. Orazio Condorelli, Professor of Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Law, Univer- sity of Catania, Italy. Kathleen G. Cushing, Reader in Medieval History, Keele University, UK; and President of the Iuris canonici medii aevi consociatio (ICMAC). Wim Decock, Assistant Professor of Legal History, Universities of Leuven and Liège, Belgium; Affiliate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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xiv List of Contributors

Olivier Descamps, Professor of Law and Legal History, Panthéon-Assas Uni- versity (Paris II); and Managing Director of the Institute of Legal History, French National Center for Scientiﬁc Research (CNRS), Paris, France. Rafael Domingo, Spruill Research Professor of Law, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; and Professor of Law and ICS Research Professor, Univer- sity of Navarra, Spain. David Gilles, Associate Professor of Law, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; and former United States Ambassador to the Holy See. Laetitia Guerlain, Assistant Professor of Legal History, University of Bor- deaux, France. Christian Hattenhauer, Professor of Law and Legal History, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Nicolas Laurent-Bonne, Professor of Law and Legal History, University of Clermont-Auvergne, France. Daniel Lee, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Yves Mausen, Professor of Law and Legal History, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Matthew C. Mirow, Professor of Law, Florida International University Col- lege of Law, Miami, FL, USA. Kenneth Pennington, Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA. Paul J. du Plessis, Professor of Roman Law, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Xavier Prévost, Professor of Law and Legal History, and Managing Director of the Research Institute Montesquieu, University of Bordeaux, France. Christof Rolker, Professor of Historical Basic Sciences, University of Bam- berg, Germany. Marco Sabbioneti, Research Fellow, Institute for Study of Legal Science, University of Florence, Italy.

List of Contributors xv

Mathias Schmoeckel, Professor of Law and Legal History, University of Bonn, Germany. William Sweet, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Philosophy, Theology, and Cultural Traditions, Saint Francis Xavier Univer- sity, Nova Scotia, Canada. John Witte, Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distin- guished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Acknowledgments

The editors of this volume are deeply grateful to John Witte, Jr., the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, for his leadership in the development of this project on Great French Chris- tian Jurists. They are also grateful to Gary S. Hauk, senior editorial consultant of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, for his acute and professional attention to the preparation of the ﬁnal manuscript. They owe a special word of thanks to John Berger, senior editor at Cambridge University Press, for his committed editorial assistance. Finally, yet import- antly, the editors want to express their warm thanks to the McDonald Agape Foundation for its generous support in making this volume possible.

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