Laboulaye, historien du droit et/ou comparatiste

Abstract

The romance entitled Paris in America (1863) is an illustrative example of many aspects from Edouard Laboulaye’s works. This plea in favor of the free institutions of the United States shows the relations of the College de France professor (also founder of the Société de législation comparée) with legal history and comparative law. As he made a political reading of legal systems and gave an important role to legal revolutions, Laboulaye thought, among the first legal writers, about legal circulations.