French Civil Code Tradition

French Civil Code Tradition gathers the jurists of the French civilian tradition centered on the Napoleonic Code, the Code Civil enacted in 1804, whose clear, accessible style and comprehensive coverage of private law made it the most widely copied legal code in the world. Its members include the drafters and early commentators of the Napoleonic Code itself as well as the French, Belgian and Luxembourgish jurists whose scholarship developed and refined French civil law in the two centuries since, a tradition that shaped civil codes across Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.