TY - JOUR
AU - Stone, Julius
AB - 564 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW [Vol. 24 d'Estaing are well portrayed. It is, however, not quite correct to talk about personalities representing France in the Commission and in the Court. The members of these institutions should, according to the text of the Treaties (see e.g. Art 157 and Art. 167 of the Rome Treaty) be absolutely independent of their own home country. But it is remarkable that a French minister of agriculture is quoted for having publicly blamed a Commissioner of French nationality for ". . . ne pas tenir compte des interets de son pays." Roger-Michel Chevallier has made a very interesting comparative study of the respective competence of the European Court of Justice and the highest French Administrative Courts. Relying mostly on an interpretation of the articles of the EEC Treaties which attribute competences to the Court, and thus giving less emphasis to the devel­ opment of its case law, Chevallier concludes that the similarities between the Community and the French system are striking. "The construction of a building is not only the accumulation of the individual bricks, but above all, the project and the plan of the architect . . . ," Paul Stehlin 
TI - Legal Values in Western Society
JF - American Journal of Comparative Law
DO - 10.2307/840085
DA - 1976-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/legal-values-in-western-society-sOLdrU0PZ4
SP - 564
EP - 571
VL - 24
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -