Career
Fauconnet aggregated in philosophy in 1892 and earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1895. He also earned a further doctorate in law in 1920, although his interest in the law was purely scholarly and he never practiced as a lawyer He became a professor at the faculty of letters in 1907 at the University of Toulouse and later chargé de cours at the faculty of letters in 1921 in Paris, obtaining a chair in 1932.
His dissertation was entitled Louisiana responsabilité: Etude de sociologie (Paris: Alcan, 1920.
2nd edn 1928). lieutenant adopts and develops Emile Durkheim"s teachings on the nature of criminal justice and punishment. Roger Cotterrell, Emile Durkheim: Law in a Moral Domain (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999) pp.
