B. Fauvarque-Cosson French Civil Code: 1804 – 2014

Abstract: The article is devoted to the history of creation and evolution of the Civil Code of France and to its influence on legal development of the modern world. From the moment of its creation the Code has served not only as the sample of the civil law codification in many countries of Europe, Latin America, Asia, but as a standard of legislatice technique. The author analyses the ways of development of the Civil Code of France, existing problems of law application practice, its significance for the provision of the unity of nation, consolidation of creatice forces, strengthening of the respect to law. Special attention is paid to the discussions about further fate of the Civil Code of France, which have started in 2004, in its bicentennial year and which still continue in our days. The central place in these discussions is occupied by themes of europeanization and internalization of law, modernization of civil law regulation, swiftly developing processes of recodification. The author calls to take into account European and international standards, existing economic and social conditions in the processes of modernization of the Code and recodification, confirming her conclusions on the example of the processes of the reform of contract law launched in France in 2005.

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