Projects

The MAJICE project

MAJICE is a research project that that was retained by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche following a call for projects dealing with a program entitled “Governing and administering” presented in 2008 (http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/AAPProjetsOuverts?lngAAPId=166 ).

The MAJICE project combines three laboratories: in civil law, the Centre de Recherches sur la Justice and the Trial (CRJP) at the University of Paris I, under the direction of Professor Loïc Cadiet, in criminal law, the research and advisory team of Poitiers in criminal science (EPRED), under the direction of Jean-Paul Jean, Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal of Paris, Associate Professor, and Professor Michel Massé, and in administrative law, l’Observatoire des Mutations Institutionnelles et Juridiques (OMIJ), under the direction of Professor Hélène Pauliat.

In a comparative law perspective, the MAJICE project proposes to define the concept of the administration of justice, to identify its applications and to analyze its evolutions. Three countries are subject to a comparative analysis: England, the Netherlands and France, for each of the three areas of the law concerned.

The influence of the application of New Public Management in the development of a more efficient and effective conception of justice in England and the Netherlands led to the analysis of the evolutions of the administration of justice in these two countries. The gain of greater power if the concept of “quality of justice”, with more particularly the implementation in the Netherlands of a “quality policy” and of a policy made to improve of the process of judgment in England show  transnational reconciliations for the judicial systems concerned.

After several months of research having more particularly relying on the sending of questionnaires and site visits in the Netherlands and England, a work seminar took place on May 25^th, 2012 in Limoges.

The proceedings of this seminar are published on the website of the OEAJ.