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Jean-Paul Costa, « Droit et évaluation », Revue française d'administration publique (documents), ID : 10.3406/rfap.1993.2694
Law and Evaluation. Law and evaluation are closely linked, contrary to appearances. There is a real - if not desirable - interlink as well at the ex ante stage of decisionmaking, action or policy analysis as at the ex post stage. If important legal elements are put aside in prior evaluation, it can only lead to errors, possibly litigation, and compromise the financial and social success of a project. In the same way, the attitude of judges, especially those of administrative courts, shows that they take more and more evaluation into account in their legal reasoning. The evaluators have not yet developped as much the attitude of taking law into account, but this can be explained by the relatively recent growth of evaluation.