Bertrand Favreau is a French

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born in

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in 1947. He is the founding president of the Bordeaux Bar Institute for Human Rights (IDHBB) and also the Chairman of

The Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize The Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize, or Ludovic Trarieux Award, is an international human rights award given annually to a lawyer for contributions to the defence of human rights. History The Prize was inaugurated in Bordeaux i ...

. In 1986, he was the founding president of the

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an Lawyers Union and then became Honorary President, he was also the president of Human Rights Institute of European Lawyers in

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. since 1989. Chairman of the

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(IDHAE).

Publications

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Georges Mandel Georges Mandel (5 June 1885 – 7 July 1944) was a French journalist, politician, and French Resistance leader. Early life Born Louis George Rothschild in Chatou, Yvelines, he was the son of a tailor and his wife. His family was Jewish, originally ...

ou La passion de la République 1885-1944'', 568 p. Fayard (1996) Collection « Pour une histoire du XXe siècle » *'' Derrière la cause isolée d'un homme'', Editions de la Presqu'île, 1996. *'' Le droit, la justice, l'humanité. Derrière la cause isolée d'un homme 2'', Editions du Passant, 2001. * ''Le bien sorti du mal'', Éditions Le Bord de l'eau, 2008. * ''Promenade européenne dans

'',

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, 2012.

In participation

*''Les

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'', sous la direction de François Furet et Mona Ozouf,

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, 1991. *'' Enlarging the Fight against Fraud in the European Union: Penal and Administrative Sanctions, Settlement, Whistleblowing and Corpus Juris in the Candidate Countries, edited by Peter Cullen, 2004, * '' Le Droit de l’homme à un environnement sain'', in Annuaire International des Droits de l’Homme, Sakkoulas/Bruylant, Athènes-Bruxelles, 2006. * '' Droit de l’eau, droit de l’homme, Patrimoine et Estuaires'', Éditions Confluences, 2006. * '' Handicap et protection du droit européen et communautaire. Entre droit européen et droits internes'', Bruylant, 2006. * '' Dreyfus réhabilité, cent ans après - Antisémitisme : il y a cent ans, et aujourd'hui...'', (dir) Éditions Le Bord de l'eau, 2007. * '' L'Avocat dans le droit européen'', (dir) Bruylant, 2008. * '' Per un rilancio del progetto europeo. Esigenze di tutela degli interessi comunitari e nuove strategie di integrazione penale'', Giuffrè, 2009. * '' La loi peut-elle dire l'histoire ? Droit, Justice et Histoire'', Bruylant, 20012.

External links

The Ludovic Trarieux Prize Official Website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Favreau 1947 births Living people 20th-century French lawyers French human rights activists Date of birth missing (living people) 21st-century French lawyers Lawyers from Bordeaux