PART I. PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS -- Usage et légitimité / Maxime Grignon -- PART II. GENERAL CUSTOMARY LAW -- Tradition in the French legal system : outward signs and usefulness / Aurélie Brès -- La délimitation du champ de l'usage / Marie Bourdeau -- The impact of usages on property rights / Crystelle Sanchez-Saëz -- Usages et contrat-type / Philippe Grignon -- PART III. NATIONAL CUSTOMARY LAW -- L'usuel et le droit fiscal / Lise Chatain -- The role of custom in Rule 144A capital markets transactions -- Custom as public policy : tying the hands of the dead / Eric Rakowski -- Les usages du pouvoir exécutif sous la Vème république / Éric Sales -- Political considerations in the recognition of usages : the Israeli experience / Arlette Slomiansky -- Droit pénal et usages : entre flux et reflux / Marie-Christine Sordino -- Customary law and the domain of federal common law today / Amanda L. Tyler -- PART IV. INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMARY LAW -- Les usages en droit privé européen / Gustavo Cerqueira -- Usages de l'internet et divulgation adaptative des clauses contractuelles : la force exécutoire de l'inconographie / Arthur Oulaï and Serge Kablan -- International trade usages : what's so special about them? / Pierre Mousseron -- Customary international law / John Yoo and Ivana Stradner.
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This book addresses current practices in customary law. It includes contributions by scholars from various legal systems (the USA, France, Israel, Canada etc.), who examine the current impacts of customary law on various aspects of private law, constitutional law, business law, international law and criminal law. In addition, the book expands the traditional concept of the rule of law, and argues that lawyers should not narrowly focus on statutory law, but should instead pay more attention to the impact of practices on "real legal life." It states that the observation of practices calls for a stronger focus on usage, customs and traditions in our legal systems - the idea being not to replace statutory law, but to complement it with customary observations.--