2005 Mikhail Xifaras « Y-a-t’il une théorie de la propriété chez Proudhon ? », in R. Damien et H. Touboul, Proudhon, figure de la modernité, numéro spécial de Corpus, Paris, Fayard, pp. 229-282.
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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 (...)

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 (...)

Études philosophiques, n°3, septembre 2003 Presses Universitaires de France, Paris
This paper proposes a reconstruction of Rousseau’s theory of Property Rights, based on the distinction of three logical and chronological moments of the philosophical history of property drawn by Rousseau : at the origins are the commons, then the foundation of the State’s territories, and last the private and public property rights in the civil state. This theory is organized around the three following (...)

Heinz Mohnhaupt & Jean-François Kervégan (eds.) Wechselseitige Beeinflußungen und Rezeptionen von Recht und Philosophie in Frankreich und Deutschland, 140, 2003 Klostermann Frankfurt/main
The modern conceptualizations of property are born in the elaborations of the legal thought in the first part of the 19th Century. Yet, as far as France is concerned, the first commentators are taken to have beenfor politically servile and scientifically sterile; put together into the so-called Ecole de (...)

Revue Française d’Histoire des Idées Politiques, 15, avril 2002
The purpose of this article is to present a reflexion on what jurisprudence should be in order to be critical, in a philosophical and political meaning. In the articles known as "theft of wood", Marx studied empirical Law, concretely a statute operating a requalification of customary rights in theft. His critics is logicaly very complex : it’s a refutation of the rationality of modern property (discussed in its hegelian version) (...)