Abstract
My presentation is concerned with the relationship between law/the judiciary and politics. The laws relating to civil and criminal wrongs are indeed made either by Parliament in the form of Acts of Parliament (also called statutes) or by the judges themselves (then called the common law). The common law is made as judges decide cases and state the principles on which they are basing their decisions, this accumulation of principles building into a body of law. I have chosen this topic because this relationship between statutes and the common law is very different in France (like in Germany: this is the Rhineland/Germanic tradition of Law) and in the Anglo-Saxon system. One evidence of that is that in French like in German we have two words for Law: one for what is decided in Parliament this is "la loi" or "das Recht" in French/German and the law made by judges is "le droit", "das Gesetz".
