Georges Vedel

Georges Vedel , born the July 5th 1910 with Auch (Gers) and deceased the February 21st 2002, is a professor of public Droit.

Biography

Schooling

Studies with the French college of Mainz, with the college of Toulouse, the Faculty of Law and of the letters of Toulouse. Incorporated Faculty of Law (for public law) in 1936.

University career

It is, according to the professors Carcassonne and Duhamel, the “refondator of the public law”. It was teaching with faculties of Poitiers (1937), Toulouse (1939) then Paris (1949-1979) like with the Institut of political studies of Paris, the École des Mines and HEC Paris. He will be the last Senior of the Faculty of Law of Paris (of 1962 to 1967) before his bursting between the Universities Paris I, Paris II, etc He is the author of a handbook of constitutional law (1949) and administrative law, which marked generations of lawyers. He is mainly known for his theory of the constitutional bases of the administrative law and thus of the unit of the French public law.

Functions and Nominations

Legal adviser of the French delegation in the negotiations on the Common Market and Euratom (1956-1957). Member of the Economic and Social Council (1969-1979). President of the Center of studies of the incomes and the costs (C.E.R.C., 1976-1980).

Georges Vedel was member of the Constitutional council, of 1980 with 1989, under the nominations made by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, president of the Republic until in 1981. He chaired into 1992/93 a charged commission to propose constitutional reforms named by the president of the Republic François Mitterrand.

Distinctions and Decorations

Grand Cross of the Legion of honor.
Grand Cross of the National order of the Merit.
Military Cross.
Commander of the academic Palms.
Large officer of Ouissam Alaouite of the Morocco.
Doctor honoris causa of the Pantios University of Athens.
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Athens.
Doctor honoris causa of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles.
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lausanne.
Doctor honoris causa of the University of Costa Rica.
Grand Prix of the Academy of Science morals and political (1985).
Associated member of the Academy of the Kingdom of the Morocco,
Member of the Academy of Athens.
Elected with the French Academy, the May 28th 1998, with the armchair 5, to replace Rene Huyghe, it was received by Jean-François Deniau with which the speech, full with humor, summarizes perfectly the course of Georges Vedel, and his contribution with the public law and the European institutions.

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