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Place of Birth: Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Henri Capitant
- Henri Capitant (1865–1937) was a French jurist. He was a professor and noted teacher of law at Grenoble (1891) and Paris (1908).
- Several of his legal textbooks have had a lasting effect on French legal education, including Introduction à l' étude du droit civil (1898), Cours élémentaire de droit civil (1914-16 with Ambroise Colin), Questions de droit civil (1933) and Grands arrêts de la jurisprudence civile (1934). Capitant pursued an ideal of the unity of legal education, jurisprudence and legislation.
- A declared conservative, he objected to legal innovation, which he saw as generally threatening to a purpose of law – the preservation of individual liberty.
- He co-founded the Paris Institute of Comparative Law in 1931.
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