Depuis la création du Conseil constitutionnel, onze professeurs de droit ont accédé à l’institution. Il s’agit ici de comprendre et de définir les mécanismes à l’origine de leur sélection, leurs rôles spécifiques dans le processus d’élaboration des décisions de façon à délimiter leurs apports à la juridiction constitutionnelle. Il apparaît alors nécessaire de repenser les conditions d’accès au Conseil constitutionnel tant la contribution de ces universitaires à l’élaboration et à l’essor des méthodes de travail et de la jurisprudence du Conseil constitutionnel a été considérable, au point d’approfondir les rapports entre fonction doctrinale et fonction de juger. / Since the establishment of the Constitutional Council, eleven law professors have joined the institution. This thesis then began to understand and define the mechanisms behind their selection, their specific roles in the decision-making process so as to define their contributions to the constitutional court. It appears then necessary to reconsider the conditions of access to the Constitutional Council as their contribution to the development and the development of working methods and jurisprudence of the Constitutional Council was considerably developed to deepen the relationship between teaching office and judicial function.

Doctor of Philosophy / Curriculum and Instruction / Thomas Vontz / This phenomenological study hermeneutically explores law professors’ felt experiences within online existential lifeworld spheres. Prose, poetry, color images, and virtual journeying provide descriptive and interpretive text suggesting expansion of Gadamer’s fusion of horizonal understanding. Law professors who teach asynchronously online selected five color images from pixabay.com corresponding with the five universal existential themes: body, space, time, relationships and material things/technology (van Manen, 2014) as catalysts to conversationally explore what it feels like to transition from classroom to online instruction. Multiple phenomenological, artistic, and scientific theories prismatically amplify and explain the study’s design: Gadamer’s hermeneutical circle of understanding (1960/2006), Termes six-point spherical perspective (2016), Einstein’s closed yet unbounded universe (Egdall, 2014), and Seamon’s concept of “at homeness” (2012). Dialogical understanding of Self and Other(s) through Gadamer’s call for festival and serious play (1960/2006) is activated: The reader is invited to interact with the study text through visual and auditory web experiences. Researcher’s hermeneutic and existential retelling of the professors’ conversations begins to unfold metaphorically around a table within a virtual forest. When researcher’s previously bracketed-away prejudice for incorporating synchronous modalities into online learning erupts, professors’ longing felt for classroom home actualizes and ultimately emerges as a sixth existential dimension proposed by the researcher. A culminating journey through virtual desert in search of online home continues the retelling and metaphorically incorporates all six existential themes. Dramatic changes in researcher’s lifeworld view, ways of knowing and being, self view, self action and pedagogical development as a result of conducting the study are summarized. Future research is implicated including exploration of professors’ existentially felt experiences while teaching synchronously online and deep-mining professorial empathy toward students. Factors that impinge on all law professors’ transitioning to online instruction contextually anchor the study: 1) Legal pedagogy’s evolution from 18th Century professional skills training through the late 19th Century intrusion of legal doctrine instruction, and 20th Century paralegal skills training; 2) The American Bar Association’s 21st century mandates for graduating students with both legal skills and legal doctrine training; 3) 21st Century pedagogical Immutables (teaching online, teaching legal job skills, teaching legal doctrine, teaching to standardized tests); and 4) 21st Century Protean Challenges (institution and student demand for technology-based instruction, the Global Legal Services Industry’s hierarchical control over legal education and practice, enrollment and tuition crises, multi-cultural limitations, and the pedagogical conundrum of choosing among multiple online design and delivery modalities).

O Direito atual é estudado como fruto exclusivo da vontade humana. Nesse sentido, a lei é pensada como produto da razão, apartada de conceitos como Moral ou Justiça. Este modelo corresponde a determinado arranjo político-social e normalmente vem associado a um conceito de Estado regulador de conflitos. Esta organização jurídico-política nem sempre existiu. O Brasil Império possuiu outra forma de conceber Direito e Sociedade, na qual o Direito Natural possuía lugar de destaque. Em São Paulo, até a Conciliação, a disciplina esteve nas mãos de liberais e significava oposição ao governo monárquico. Neste período predominou o uso do compêndio de Perreau, de início, e o de Ferrer, posteriormente. Ambos possuíam raízes no liberalismo e foram adotados pelos professores Avellar Brotero e Amaral Gurgel. Em meados do XIX passam a vicejar na Academia de Direito as tendências espiritualistas. Ali se estabeleceram as doutrinas de Krause e o Ecletismo de Jouffrouy e Cousin. Nas últimas décadas do Oitocentos a disciplina Direito Natural passa a estar nas mãos de catedráticos politicamente conservadores, como João Theodoro Xavier de Mattos, e convictos católicos, como José Maria C. de Sá e Benevides. / Current Law is studied as the exclusive fruit of human will. In this sense, the law is thought as a product of reason, apart of concepts such as Moral or Justice. This model corresponds to a certain political-social arrangement and is usually associated with a concept of State that regulates conflicts. This legal-political organization has not always existed. Brazil Empire had another way of conceiving Law and Society, in which Natural Law had a prominent place. In São Paulo, up to the Conciliation period, the discipline was in the hands of liberals and meant opposition to the monarchical government. In this period predominated the use of the compendium of Perreau, at first, and Ferrer, later. Both had roots in liberalism and were adopted by professors Avellar Brotero and Amaral Gurgel. During the mid-nineteenth century, spiritualistic tendencies flourished in the Law Academy. There they established the doctrines of Krause and the eclecticism of Jouffrouy and Cousin. In the last decades of the nineteenth century the discipline of Natural Law came to be in the hands of politically conservative professors, such as João Theodoro Xavier de Mattos, and convinced Catholics, such as José Maria C. de Sá and Benevides.

O Direito atual é estudado como fruto exclusivo da vontade humana. Nesse sentido, a lei é pensada como produto da razão, apartada de conceitos como Moral ou Justiça. Este modelo corresponde a determinado arranjo político-social e normalmente vem associado a um conceito de Estado regulador de conflitos. Esta organização jurídico-política nem sempre existiu. O Brasil Império possuiu outra forma de conceber Direito e Sociedade, na qual o Direito Natural possuía lugar de destaque. Em São Paulo, até a Conciliação, a disciplina esteve nas mãos de liberais e significava oposição ao governo monárquico. Neste período predominou o uso do compêndio de Perreau, de início, e o de Ferrer, posteriormente. Ambos possuíam raízes no liberalismo e foram adotados pelos professores Avellar Brotero e Amaral Gurgel. Em meados do XIX passam a vicejar na Academia de Direito as tendências espiritualistas. Ali se estabeleceram as doutrinas de Krause e o Ecletismo de Jouffrouy e Cousin. Nas últimas décadas do Oitocentos a disciplina Direito Natural passa a estar nas mãos de catedráticos politicamente conservadores, como João Theodoro Xavier de Mattos, e convictos católicos, como José Maria C. de Sá e Benevides. / Current Law is studied as the exclusive fruit of human will. In this sense, the law is thought as a product of reason, apart of concepts such as Moral or Justice. This model corresponds to a certain political-social arrangement and is usually associated with a concept of State that regulates conflicts. This legal-political organization has not always existed. Brazil Empire had another way of conceiving Law and Society, in which Natural Law had a prominent place. In São Paulo, up to the Conciliation period, the discipline was in the hands of liberals and meant opposition to the monarchical government. In this period predominated the use of the compendium of Perreau, at first, and Ferrer, later. Both had roots in liberalism and were adopted by professors Avellar Brotero and Amaral Gurgel. During the mid-nineteenth century, spiritualistic tendencies flourished in the Law Academy. There they established the doctrines of Krause and the eclecticism of Jouffrouy and Cousin. In the last decades of the nineteenth century the discipline of Natural Law came to be in the hands of politically conservative professors, such as João Theodoro Xavier de Mattos, and convinced Catholics, such as José Maria C. de Sá and Benevides.