Michel Mouskhely (Mouskheli) born Mikheil Muskhelishvili ( ka, მიხეილ მუსხელიშვილი) (8 July 1903 – 11 July 1964) was a

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political scientist and jurist. Born in

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, Georgia, then part of

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, Muskheli emigrated to

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following the

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in 1921. He then studied at

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s, and

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. After his brief work for the

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(1932–33), he lectured at the University of Cairo from 1935 to 1948. In 1948, he became a Professor of International Law and of Political and Economic Sciences at the

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. Mouskhely organized and directed a center for

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studies at the Strasbourg law faculty which began in 1960 publication of abstracts from the principal Soviet periodicals dealing with the social sciences. Mouskhely wrote a number of works on

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, and drafted, together with Professor Gaston Stefani, a 1948 European federal constitution which was submitted to the International Coordinating Committee of the Movements for European Unity, but had no direct effect on the latter's work.Walter Lipgens, Wilfried Loth (1985), ''Documents on the history of European integration'', pp. 57-8. Walter de Gruyter Inc, .

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1903 births 1964 deaths Soviet emigrants to France French legal scholars French jurists French political scientists Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Writers from Tbilisi French male non-fiction writers Academic staff of Cairo University 20th-century French male writers 20th-century political scientists {{Georgia-law-bio-stub