Olivier Duhamel

Olivier Duhamel

Olivier Duhamel is a French university professor and politician.[1] He was a Socialist member of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2004.[1][2]

Biography

Olivier Duhamel was born on 2 May 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.[2]

He has taught at the University of Franche-Comté, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.[1] He was also a visiting professor at the University of Washington and New York University.[1] He is a faculty member at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, though he stopped teaching in 2010.[1][3][4][5]

He was an advisor to the Constitutional Council of France from 1983 to 1995, and to Georges Vedel in 1993 and Edouard Balladur in 2007.[1][5] He served as MEP from 1997 to 2004.[1][2]

He writes in the popular press for La Marseillaise and Valeurs Actuelles.[1] He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of another publication, POUVOIRS.[1][4][5][6] He is an editor for the European Constitutional Law Review.[1] He also appears on France Culture, LCI, and Europe 1.[1][4][5]

He is the Vice-President of Le Siècle.[7] He is also a member of the Club des Juristes, a legal think tank in France.[5]

Bibliography

  • Chili ou la Tentative, Révolution/Légalité (Gallimard,1974)
  • La Gauche et la 5ème République (PUF, 1980)
  • Dictionnaire des œuvres politiques (co-edited with François Châtelet and Evelyne Pisier, PUF, 1986)
  • Dictionnaire constitutionnel (co-edited with Yves Mény, PUF, 1991)
  • Las Democracias (co-edited with Manuel Cepeda, TM editors, Bogota)
  • Démocratie, démocraties (co-edited with Robert Darnton, Editions du Rocher, 1999)
  • Le quinquennat (Presses de Sciences Po, 2000, 2008)
  • Vive la VIe République (Seuil, 2002)
  • Pour l'Europe - Le texte intégral de la Constitution expliqué et commenté (Seuil,2003)
  • Histoire des présidentielles (Seuil, 2007)
  • Le starkozysme (co-written with Michel Field, Seuil, 2008)
  • Droit constitutionnel et institutions politiques (Seuil, 2009)
  • Histoire de la Ve République (1958-2009) (co-written with Guy Carcassonne and Jean-Jacques Chevallier,Dalloz, 2009).

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Sciences Po webpage
  2. ^ a b c European Parliament webpage
  3. ^ Camille Stromboni, 'Sciences po Paris : le dernier cours d'Olivier Duhamel', in L'Etudiant, December 3, 2010 [1]
  4. ^ a b c France Culture webpage
  5. ^ a b c d e Club des Juristes webpage
  6. ^ POUVOIRS website
  7. ^ AFP, '"Le Siècle": Nicole Notat présidente', in Le Figaro, 12/11/2010 [2]