Jean-Louis Halpérin
Jean-Louis Halpérin (born October 30, 1960 in Paris) is a historian of French law.
Biography
A former student of the École normale supérieure (1979–1982) and after a thesis on the Court of Cassation under the French Revolution, he obtained his aggregation in the history of law in 1988.
He has taught successively at the University of Lyon III, at the University of Burgundy and since 2003 at the École normale supérieure where, from 2006 to 2010, he headed the department of social sciences. He was a senior member of the Academic Institute of France from October 20135 to 2018. He is also director of the Center for Theory and Analysis of Law since 2015.
He particularly studies comparative law and the history of contemporary law. His work focused in particular on the Civil Code: it was in this context that in 2004 he was appointed chairman of the Exhibition Committee for the Bicentenary of the Civil Code.
He directs, with Pierre Bonin, the History of law collection for Garnier.
As for its theoretical affiliations, it is classified in the current of legal positivism, relying on the theories of Herbert Hart.
Works
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- Le Tribunal de cassation et les Pouvoirs sous la Révolution (1790-1799) (1987)
- L'Impossible Code civil (1992)
- Histoire du droit privé français depuis 1804 (1996)
- Le Code civil (1996; english translation, The French Civil Code, 2006)
- Entre nationalisme juridique et communauté de droit (1999)
- Histoire des droits en Europe de 1750 à nos jours (2004)
- Droit japonais et Droit français au miroir de la modernité (2007; with Naoki Kanayama)
- Dictionnaire historique des juristes français (2007; with Patrick Arabeyre and Jacques Krynen)
- Dictionnaire des grandes œuvres juridiques (2008; editor, with Olivier Cayla)
- Histoire du droit des biens (2008)
- Profils des mondialisations du droit (2009)
- Portraits du droit indien (2012)
- La Culture juridique française, entre mythes et réalités: XIXe-XXe siècles (2013; with Frédéric Audren)
- Five legal Revolutions since the 17th century: An Analysis of a global legal History (2014)
- Histoire de l'état des juristes: Allemagne, XIXe-XXe siècles (2015)
- L'Affaire Benetton, une querelle d'affichage entre la France et l'Allemagne (2017)
- Introduction au Droit (2017)
- Histoires Contemporaines du Droit (2020; with Frédéric Audren and Anne-Sophie Chambost)
