CONGOLESE LAW AND THE IMPERATIVES OF THE MODERN STATE.

[Law is intended to evolve with the society whose relationships, organization and functioning it governs. It is concretely a social science whose ultimate purpose is summarized in its adaptation to the realities of the populations it governs in a defined geographical jurisdiction. More clearly, the legal norm is born; it ages and then regenerates or dies over time. Jurists say that the law is adopted, modified and repealed. The observation to be made when diagnosing Congolese normative production, from independence to the present day, is that the Congolese legislator (stricto sensu or lato sensu) has not taken much trouble to adapt laws and regulations to the prerequisites of the modern rule of law. It has not taken into account the evolution of Congolese society, the imperatives of modernity and the requirements of the rule of law. The normative framework has remained almost intact for several decades, except for some notable modifications. This work is therefore presented as another tool that reinforces the scientific works that preceded it for the reform of Congolese law...]