Jean Carbonnier
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André Parrot, Carbonnier, Hans Van Werveke and Gerard Knuvelder (Utrecht, 1961)
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| Born |
20 April 1908 Libourne, France |
| Died | 28 October 2003 (aged 95) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Law professor |
Jean Carbonnier (1908–2003) was one of the most important French jurists of the 20th century. He was a civil law specialist and a private law professor.
Jean Carbonnier was the son of Fernand Carbonnier and Dany Daniel. He married Madeleine Hugues.
His Protestant beliefs influenced his way of thinking and his work. Although Jean Carbonnier published theological and historical articles about Protestantism, he still supported secularity.
Jean Cabonnier studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bordeaux where he obtained his doctorate in 1932 and private law agrégation in 1937.
He was a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Poitiers from 1937 to 1955, teaching French civil law. He became dean in 1950. At this time, he published his Treatise on Civil Law (Droit civil) in 1955, which has been republished several times since then. Afterwards, Jean Carbonnier taught at the Paris Law Faculty (replaced with Panthéon-Assas University in 1970) until 1976.
Jean Carbonnier became President of L'Année Sociologique in 1964, and worked for the sociology journal during fifteen years. He also created and started heading the Laboratory for Legal Sociology (Laboratoire de sociologie juridique) at Panthéon-Assas University in 1968 - in order to produce data that would help law making.
On the international level, Jean Carbonnier supported the creation of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law and participated in the inauguration of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, with Renato Treves. Jean Carbonnier was particularly well known in Canada and Italy. As a professor, he also often referenced to foreign legal systems, such as Germany or Italy.
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