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an "Annuaire de legislation comparee," as well as a 

 "Bulletin"; and the Ministry of Justice has long had a 

 Bureau, the Comite de legislation etrangere, which 

 publishes translations of the important foreign codes. 

 A number of chairs or courses are especially entitled 

 "de legislation comparee," or "de droit compare," such 

 as those of CAPITANT (Paris), CHAVEGRIN (Paris), 

 MASSIGLI (Paris), FLACH (Paris), LAMBERT (Lyon), 

 LYON-CAEN and THALLER (Paris), with more or less 

 specializing in the several departments of civil, criminal, 

 commercial, or constitutional law. 



Systems of Colonial Legislation naturally receive at- 

 tention in nearly every faculty of law. Officials of the 

 colonial service are contributing valuable publications 

 of materials on Mohammedan, Chinese, and African law 

 and custom. In the ficole Coloniale (Paris) are given 

 courses in general colonial law, in the law of China, Indo- 

 China, Algeria, Tunis, occidental and equatorial Africa, 

 and in Mohammedan law. Industrial Legislation has 

 now become a subject of comparative study. Beside the 

 courses under the Faculties of Law by JAY and PERCEROU 

 (Paris), LESCURE (Bordeaux), Pic (Lyon), BERENGER 

 (Marseille), and others, instruction is given in this 

 subject at the Conservatoire National des Arts et 

 Metiers, at the ficole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, 

 and at the ficole de Legislation Professionelle. The Asso- 

 ciation Internationale pour la protection legale des Tra- 

 vailleurs has its headquarters at Paris, and is an active 

 stimulator of research. 



Legislative Methods are coming into the field of com- 

 parative law. The necessity for re-casting or replacing 

 the century-old Civil Code has stimulated a number of 

 activities, particularly the Societe d'fitudes Legislatives, 

 a unique organization, which studies the Code topically, 

 and through separate Committees prepares and discusses 



