2001 Labor
A key site of democratic life, the university is more and more often subject of society’s demands. Without expecting it to renounce its traditional missions of teaching and research, we ask the university to be competitive, to instil a spirit of citizenship, to create professionals from the masses, while itself representing an elite. It should also adapt to new technologies and be a motor behind European structures: so many equirements that bear witness to its profound changes. (...)

T. Berns, "Violence de la loi à la Renaissance. L’originaire du politique chez Machiavel et Montaigne", Kimé, Paris, 2000
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1999
Kimé, Paris
European universalism traditionnaly confuses universalism with its own pretentions. It’s contemporary version (Habermas, for example), based on the model of communicational exchange is not less confused, as it proposes procedures of legitimation that are said to be valid in any place and any time, without even trying to understand the real effects of using this model in a non-european context. Universalism never asks what is universal for the others. ? This little book aims (...)

2000
Vrin (Paris)
This book presents Leo Strauss’s work and examines the strategies used by philosophers in order both to disclose and to dissimulate their doctrines. The essays collected in this book test the "art of writing" hypothesis and try to measure the potential and the limits of Strauss’s account for philosophical writing. Also included a French translation of the first version of "Persecution and the Art of Writing" (1941)an a bibliography of Strauss and Straussian studies. (...)

1999
Story-Scientia
This book accounts for the main transformations of Modern law in four key areas : the legal system; the social contract; how the law is applied to cases and the regulation of personal relationships. Going back to the early age of Modern law, the book is nevertheless chiefly oriented to the future transformations of the legal field. It analyses three competing scenarios : the economic approach, the communautarian approach and the procedural approach to postmodern (...)

1998
Bruylant (Bruxelles)
This book provides concrete information and clear advice for pleading efficiently before Belgian Courts. It collects contributions from senior attorneys, judges and experts in judicial argumentation.

1993
Editions de l’U.L.B.
Qu’est-ce que les droits de l’homme? On en parle aujourd’hui comme s’il s’agissait d’une évidence intellectuelle établie: tout le monde les défend, du moins en paroles et tant que cela n’engage pas à grand chose. Et pourtant, en cette fin du XXème Siècle, ils sont violés dans la plupart des pays, alors même que de belles et amitieuses Constitutions les proclament un peu partout comme le fondement des sociétés civilisées.
Il est nécessaire aujourd’hui de faire le point sur la (...)

1982
Travaux du Centre de Philosophie du Droit

1996
Editions de l’Université libre de Bruxelles (Collection de philosophie politique et juridique)

1996
Presses universitaires de France (collection