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This article focuses on the issue of FGM (female genital mutilation). In order to do so, we must first draw up a history of FGC in order to understand its genesis. These lessons from the past will help us explain the different foundations of FGM. That is, to understand the motivations of those who impose FGM. The strict observance of religious precepts, especially in Islam, and the respect of tradition are the reasons most commonly invoked by the supporters of FGM.

The civil death, which is the consequence of outlawing, is a practice that has now disappeared and consists of the right to deprive someone of all rights because of his violation of the law. However, its resurgence is often mentioned in national legal debates following traumatic exactions. Moreover, attenuated versions of civil death exist in the form of a deprivation for citizens of a part of legal personality, and raise fears of a return to the legal scene of civil death. In order to understand this mechanism, we will explain its genesis by dwelling on a figure of archaic Rome: that of homo sacer. We will begin by describing his putting into otherness by the Law following his transgression of the religious rules which maintain an equilibrium between the gods and human beings in the society. Henceforth, being a simple living body foreign to the world and devoted to the gods, we will see in a second part that the homo sacer is in an exceptional relationship. This, as well as the right of men, since anyone can put him to death without fearing of becoming homicidal, as with regard to the law of the gods, since in spite of his status as a be sacred, he cannot be sacrificed

The rhetoric, discipline of Greek origin, imposed itself in Rome from the middle of the 2nd century BC. Rhetorical studies quickly become the "royal" path for any young Roman wishing to occupy a prestigious position. In particular, training in public speaking makes it possible to enter the imperial administration as a civil servant and to become a lawyer (advocatus). These burdens imply - especially for the second - evolving in the world of law and one would logically expect that the studies of rhetoric that lead to these functions would greatly contribute to the study of legal science. However, it appears at first sight that the law is absent from the rhetorician's classes and that teaching focuses essentially on mastering language. If it is surprising to make such an observation, it is nevertheless possible to put forward explanations to this apparent paradox. In Rome, the function of lawyer is very different from ours: the advocatus is mainly a judicial orator who is only to defend his client by means of his mastery of public speaking while the lawyer assists the latter in the shadows. However, if the sources are examined more closely, it becomes clear that the teaching of rhetoric is not completely empty of legal knowledge. If he cannot be qualified as a jurisconsult, the Roman orator, once out of the class of the master of rhetoric, has a sufficient mastery of legal science to be qualified as member of the law's world.