Georges Vedel was a French public law

Public law

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 professor from Auch

Auch

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, France

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.

Biography

Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law [in France].” He taught in faculties of universities in Poitiers

University of Poitiers

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, Toulouse

University of Toulouse

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, and Paris, at both the University of Paris II and the Institute of Political Studies

Institut d'études politiques

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. He was a published author, having written manuals on constitutional and regulatory law, publications which both left their mark on generations of French legal experts. Vedel was most well known for his theory of the constitutional bases present in regulatory law, a theory that united the field of public law in France.

Georges Vedel was a member of the Constitutional Council of France

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 from 1980 to 1989. He was nominated to this position by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

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, the president of France at the time.

Vedel was elected to 5th Seat of the Académie française

Académie française

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 on 28 May 1998, replacing René Huyghe.

Published works

• An Essay on the Cause Notion of Regulatory Law. (1934)
• Constitutional Law. (1949)
• Regulatory Law. (1958)

Reports

• Long-term Perspectives of French Agriculture. (published by La Documentation française, 1969.)
• Growth of Competency in the European Parliament. (published by Journal des Communautés européennes, 1972.)
• Financing Public Business. (published by J.O.C.E.S., 1976.)
• Management of Press Businesses. (published by J.O.C.E.S., 1979.)
• Presidency of the Consultative Committee for the revision of the Constitution. (published by La Documentation française, 1993.)