Our aim is to present an economic analysis of the French legal process of resolution of personal labour conflicts. We address the question of whether the mediation would be a better procedure for resolving individual labour disputes than the obligatory phase of attempt at conciliation, which...

[fre] Équilibre et régulation du marché de la justice. Délais versus prix. . En France, offre et demande de justice s'équilibrent grâce à des variations du temps qui s'écoule entre la mise en délibéré et le jugement. Ce rationnement de la demande de justice par le temps apparaît...

The paper presents a model of family judges’ child support orders when no guidelines are available. Based on the French case, it argues that judges weigh up their wish to comply with their institutional environment against their discretion and their willingness to find a compromise, by basing...

The increase of legal aids in the justice budget and the reduction of state expenses with respect to Access to Law brought the legislator to develop legal insurance. Two questions follow from the private access to law. Firstly, legal insurance and legal aids are they similar in the access to...

Legal aid systems and more precisely the French legal aid, have never been studied by specialists of Law and Economics. However, these legal aids directly affect determinant variables which explain access to court and demand of Justice: trial and negotiation costs. This article is the first...