Abstract
ItHas now become common ground that legal rules are contingent and are not enough in themselves to present a real image of a legal system. They are only one manifestation of the legal culture from which they stem. As Merriman put it, to understand a legal system, “you have to know where it comes from and what its image of itself is”. This is the premise on which Professor Bell wrote his latest book. However, he takes the argument one step further and states that it is not fully accurate to speak about the French legal culture as a single, homogeneous entity. Rather, he submits that there are several French legal cultures: one for each area of law under scrutiny. In his book, he therefore refines the now widely accepted view that a legal system consists not only of a set of rules but also of a complex of perceptions, attitudes, values and modes of reasoning.
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