³ All the seventeen French universities but Besançon and Clermont-Ferrand have law faculties.

⁴ Renault, Laparadelle, Pillet and Piédelièvre.

⁵ Preparation for the licence, a degree roughly equivalent to an American M. A., includes a thorough grounding in civil and criminal law and procedure, as well as in general economics and political science.

⁶ The Société de législation comparée bears some analogy, of course, to our legislative reference bureaus.

⁷ Mention ought to be made, however, of the excellent work done by certain parliamentary commissions, particularly with reference to the preparation of financial and proportional representation projects.

⁸ During the period following the war most of the libraries remained open only five or six hours a day and were often poorly heated.

⁹ Seventy-three out of 123 theses in these three years dealt with French administration and administrative law alone.

¹⁰ The great educational value of frequent party conferences is ehown in the high plane of public discussion of constitutional and economic reform that has been going on since the war.

¹¹ Law and sociology combine in the methodology of Duguit, as they do in that of men like Pound in America.