In anycase, it should be noted that, in manycountries today, people arevery keen on evaluating legal provisions, although this is more often mentioned in speeches than actually put into practice. Indeed, it is by no means easy to assess the efficiency of a specific legal provision or rule – let alone an entire legal system! (Jeammaud and Serverin, 1992). In particular, this would require identifying or agreeing on the objective, then on ways of measuring its success or failure in achieving the desired result. This type of assessment procedure seems very unusual and, in any case, concern for the efficiency of the protection or rules varies in different countries: it is manifestly a greater concern, for example, in Italy than France, where it may even be observed that legal sociology surveys seem to be in decline[1]. Rules may be effective and efficient or effective and inefficient but effectiveness is always a necessary, although not sufficient, conditionforefficiency.