Olivier Duhamel

Olivier Duhamel
President of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 May 2016
Preceded by	Jean-Claude Casanova
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1997–2004
Preceded by	Pierre Moscovici
Personal details
Born	(1950-05-02) 2 May 1950 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Education	Paris Nanterre University

Olivier Duhamel (born 2 May 1950) is a French university professor and politician. He was a Socialist member of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2004.

Biography

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

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

He was an advisor to the Constitutional Council from 1983 to 1995, and to Georges Vedel in 1993 and Édouard Balladur in 2007. He served as MEP from 1997 to 2004.

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

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

Bibliography

• Chili ou la Tentative, Révolution/Légalité (Gallimard,1974)
• La Gauche et la Cinquième République (PUF, 1980)
• Dictionnaire des œuvres politiques (co-edited with François Châtelet and Évelyne 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, Éditions du Rocher, 1999)
• Le quinquennat (Presses de Sciences Po, 2000, 2008)
• Vive la VI^e 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 V^e République (1958–2009) (co-written with Guy Carcassonne and Jean-Jacques Chevallier, Dalloz, 2009).