sentences:  Several of his legal textbooks have had a lasting effect on French legal education, including "Introduction à l' étude du droit civil" (1898), "Cours élémentaire de droit civil" (1914-16 with Ambroise Colin), "Questions de droit civil" (1933) and "Grands arrêts de la jurisprudence civile" (1934).Capitant pursued an ideal of the unity of legal education, jurisprudence and legislation.A declared conservative, he objected to legal innovation, which he saw as generally threatening to a purpose of law – the preservation of individual liberty.