Law and its stories ; Le droit et ses histoires
historians are used to saying that law is a history. On the basis of a positivist approach, taking the view that law is a technologyinvented in different places and times, it seems more appropriate to assert that the law has stories, which vary according to the readings of the past. From this perspective, one of the tasks of the historical method applied to law is to identify and understand the processes by which legal technology has been invented, legal systems are imposed or deployed and legal norms have disappeared. Beyond the legal order, the plurality of aspects of the legal field is the inexhaustible source of many different histories of the law. ; International audience ; historians are used to saying that law is a history. On the basis of a positivist approach, taking the view that law is a technologyinvented in different places and times, it seems more appropriate to assert that the law has stories, which vary according to the readings of the past. From this perspective, one of the tasks of the historical method applied to law is to identify and understand the processes by which legal technology has been invented, legal systems are imposed or deployed and legal norms have disappeared. Beyond the legal order, the plurality of aspects of the legal field is the inexhaustible source of many different histories of the law. ; Les historiens ont l'habitude de dire que le droit est histoire. En partant d'une approche positiviste, considérant que le droit est une technologieinventée dans des lieux et des moments différents, il parait plus approprié d'affirmer que le droit a des histoires, variées en fonction des lectures desphénomènes du passé. Dans cette perspective, une des tâches de la méthode historique appliquée au droit est d'identifier et de comprendre les processus par lesquels la technologie juridique a été inventée, les ordres juridiques sont imposés ou déployés et les normes juridiques ont disparu on paru battre en retraite. Au-delà de l'ordre juridique, la pluralité des aspects du champ juridique est ...