French Law Program Publications

The French Law Program actively encourages and supports scholarship and publication on French and Franco-American legal subjects. Over the years faculty and student participants, as well as other scholars associated with the Program, have published numerous articles and several books on French and Franco-American legal subjects.

Books

Articles

  • Stéphanie Bellier, Unilateral and Multilateral Preventive Self-Defense, 58 Maine Law Review 507 (2006)
  • Abdelkhaleq Berramdane, France, Europe, and the United States, 58 Maine Law Review 377 (2006)
  • Julien Cantegreil, Legal Formalism Meets Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence: A More European Approach to Frame the War on Terror, 60 Maine Law Review 97 (2008). [This article received the 2009 Myres S. McDougal Award from The Society for the Policy Sciences.]
  • Patrick Chaumette, Reflagging a Vessel in the European Market and Dealing with Transnational Collective Disputes, 15 Ocean and Coastal Law Journal 1 (2010)
  • Sophie Clavier, Contrasting Perspectives on Preemptive Strike, 58 Maine Law Review 565 (2006)
  • Kevin M. Clermont & John R.B. Palmer, Exorbitant Jurisdiction, 58 Maine Law Review 473 (2006)
  • David Corbé-Chalon & Martin Rogoff, Tort Reform à la Française: Jurisprudential and Policy Perspectives on Damages for Bodily Injury in France, 13 Columbia Journal of European 231 (2007)
  • John Duff, The United States and the Law of the Sea Convention: Sliding Back from Accession and Ratification, 24 Annuaire de Droit Maritime et Océanique 229 (2006)
  • Dana Zartner Falstrom, Thought Versus Action: The Influence of Legal Tradition on French and American Approaches to International Law, 58 Maine Law Review 337 (2006)
  • Jean-Louis Halpérin, Law in Books and Law in Action: The Problem of Legal Change, 64 Maine Law Review (2011)
  • Emmanuelle Jouannet, A Century of French International Law Scholarship, 61 Maine Law Review 83 (2009)
  • ------------, French and American Perspectives on International Law: Legal Cultures and International Law, 58 Maine Law Review 291 (2006)
  • Hélène Lefebvre, Fifteen Years of Particularly Sensitive Seas Areas (PSSAs): A Concept in Development, 13 Ocean and Coastal Law Journal 47 (2007)
  • André Lewin, Commentary: Convergences and Divergences: The United States and France in Multilateral Diplomacy, 58 Maine Law Review 395 (2006)
  • Anna Peyró Llopis, Collective Security and the International Enforcement of International Law: French and American Perspectives, 58 Maine Law Review 543 (2006)
  • Charles Norchi, Penser en-dessous de l’État, 52 Archives de Philosophie du Droit 405 (2009)
  • Pierre-Henri Prélot & Martin Rogoff, Le Fédéralisme devant la Cour Suprême des États-Unis, Revue du Droit Public 759 (May-June 1996)
  • ------------, La Cour Suprême des États-Unis et l’Affaire des Réfugiés Haïtiens, Revue du Droit Public 1529 (Sept.-Oct. 1994)
  • Gwenaelle Proutière-Maulion, From Resource Conservation to Sustainability: An Assessment of Two Decades of the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy, 11Ocean and Coastal Law Journal (2005/2006)
  • Martin Rogoff,  A Comparison of Constitutionalism in France and the United States, 49 Maine Law Review 21 (1997)
  • ------------, The French (R)evolution of 1958-1998, 3 Columbia Journal of European Law 453 (1997/1998)
  • ------------, The Individual, the Community, the State, and Law: The Contemporary Relevance of the Legal Philosophy of Léon Duguit, 7 Columbia Journal of European Law 477 (2001)
  • ------------, Corruption, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in France, 15-16 Tulane European & Civil Law Forum 107 (2000-2001)
  • ------------, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Counting: A Sixth French Republic?, 10 Columbia Journal of European Law 157 (2003)
  • ------------, Application of Treaties and the Decisions of International Tribunals in the United States and France: Reflections on Recent Practice, 58 Maine Law Review 406 (2006)
  • ------------, For the Abolition of the Death Penalty in America: The Advocacy of Robert Badinter, 30 Human Rights Quarterly 772 (2008)
  • ------------, La Théorie du Droit et l’Histoire du Droit aux États-Unis: Une Conciliation? 53 Archives de Philosophie du Droit 421 (2010)
  • ------------, Fifty Years of Constitutional Evolution in France: The 2008 Amendments and Beyond, Jus Politicum (2011)
  • ------------, Le Juge Constitutionnel aux États-Unis (Review Essay based on Stephen Breyer, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View), Jus Politicum (2011)
  • ------------, French Studies in International Law (Review Essay based on Charles Leben, The Advancement of International Law, Serge Sur, International Law, Power, Security and Justice: Essays on International Law and Relations, and Olivier Corten, The Law Against War: The Prohibition on the Use of Force in Contemporary International Law), 105 American Journal of International Law 819 (2011)
  • Andrew Sarapas, Les Droits des Personnes Handicapées dans le Domaine des Transports Européens, 439 Revue du Marché Commun de l’Union Européenne 395 (2000)
  • Alix Toublanc, Concerning French International Law Manuels: A Critical Review of the Principal French Textbooks in Public International Law, 58 Maine Law Review 587 (2006)

Book reviews

  • Riccardo de Caria, Review of Martin Rogoff, French Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials, 13 German Law Journal 896 (2012)
  • Book Review (Review of Leo Damrosch, Tocqueville’s Discovery of America), 52 American Journal of Legal History 214 (2012)
  • Overfishing and Sustainable Fisheries: A Program for Political Action (Review of Marcel-Pierre Cléach, Marée Amère: Pour une Gestion Durable de la Pêche), 14 Ocean and Coastal Law Journal 335 (2009)
  • A Comprehensive Treatise on Maritime Law for Students and Practitioners (Review of Jean-Pierre Beurier et al, Droits Maritimes), 13 Ocean and Coastal Law Journal 135 (2007)