Mensonge, mauvaise foi, mystification, Annales de l’institut de philo, 2004
Paris, Vrin
Disqualification of historical revisionism illustrates the Kantian shift from an epistemic to a practical concept of “Truth” when it goes on philosophical definition of falsification or lie. According to that shift, a discourse has, to be valid, to obey an imperative of veracity before to be “true”. I consequently argue that historical revisionism is first and foremost falsification in a pragmatic sense and (...)

About Globalisation (Bart De Schutter ed.), Institute for European Studies, 2004
VUB Brussels University Press
Along with globalisation, a revolution in thought is on its way that is about to bring important changes not only in the level and in the content of regulation as well as in the law making process, but also and more deeply, in the shape and in the very nature of legal rules. This paper stresses and to discusses some of the main features of this ongoing revolution. Moreover, it (...)

DOC 51 1824/001, 2004
Benoît Frydman’s audition during the debates preciding the adoption of the Corporate Governance Act.

Antigone et la résistance civile, 2004
Ousia
An analysis of the legal rhetorical topics in Sophocles’ classic tragedy.

Jean-François Kervégan (dir.) Hegel, penseur du droit, à paraître en 2004
Editions du CNRS, Paris
The hegelian theory of property claims that property rights are absolute, but in the same time relative to the realization of the principle of personhood. This article proposes a caracterization of this puzzling paradox, as a conflit between two distincts configurations (Gestaltungen) of the concept of property : the external property, understood as a dominium in plena potestas, and the internal (...)

Heinz Mohnhaupt & Jean-François Kervégan (eds.) Droit, philosophie, économie, à paraître 2004 Klostermann, coll. Ius Commune, Frankfurt/Main
For the contemporary civilian jurisprudence, representation is the essence of mandate (agency). But the classical theory considers that the mandate differs from the hiring of industry or of service by the fact that it is free of charge. In France, in the middle of the 19th Century, the quarrel wasis raging between the tenants of each of these two (...)

Journal du Juriste, 2004
Kluwer
Short comment on ECHR, Palau-Martinez vs. France (Dec. 16, 2003).

B. Frydman (dir.) La société civile et ses droits, 2004,
Bruylant, p.21-38

L’art de la Paix, édité par P. Calame, B. Denis, E. Remacle, 2004
peter Lang, p.247-258

Dictionnaire Montaigne (éd. par Philippe Desan), 2004
éditions Champion, Paris
(Roland de Jouvenel Prize granted by l’Académie française)