The Case of Legal Certainty, an Uncertain Transplant Process in France

The reception of the fundamental principle of legal certainty in France shows how the characteristics of the French administrative system have consequences for the development and consideration of this principle. An analysis of the transplantation process reveals that it has been largely prepared, knowingly or unknowingly, to allow the principle of legal certainty to find at least a partial place in the French administrative system. It also shows the central role of the administrative judge in this process which led to the adaptation of the principle of legal certainty to the French legal order, and vice versa.