A Critical and Comparative Instrument of Contemporary Public Law: Review of the French Yearbook of Public Law

Chiara Pizi

doi:10.47078/2025.2.399-408

Authors

Chiara Pizi Post-doctoral Research Fellow and Junior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Université Lyon 3, France https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9780-1421

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47078/2025.2.399-408

Keywords:

French public law, legal comparison, climate change, environmental constitutionalism, Anthropocene, comparative law, governance, European administrative law, legal epistemology, democratic participation

Abstract

The French Yearbook of Public Law aims to serve as an innovative publishing project for rethinking French public law in the global context, by overcoming the self-referentiality of its dogmatic tradition. Created under the editorship of Philippe Cossalter, the project is based on an authentic comparative vocation and an epistemologically ambitious methodology. The 2023 edition stands out for its rich dossier on climate change, approached from an interdisciplinary and multilevel perspective, as well as a comparative law section analysing normative transformations in European legal systems. The Yearbook closes with theoretically significant contributions on executive power and administrative procedure. The Yearbook thus establishes itself as a space for legal reflection capable of interrogating the challenges of the Anthropocene and reviving the transformative function of public law.

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