Constitutional reviews and institutional reforms in the Fifth French Republic

This study examines the constitutional evolution of the French Fifth Republic trough the revisions that the French Constitution has experimented during its fifty years-long life since it came into force in 1958. Within this general framework, special attention is paid to the intense process of constitutional revision and institutional reforms that has taken place since the mid last decade and that recently (2008) culminated, coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the Fifth Republic, with the broadest constitutional revisions done so far.