Patrick Weil (born 14 October 1956 in Neuilly sur Seine) is a political scientist. He is a senior research fellow at

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, at the Centre for the social history of the 20th century at the University of Paris 1. His research focuses on comparative citizenship, immigration law and constitutional law. He received his master's degree in public law from ESSEC business school before obtaining his doctorate in political science. He worked as cabinet logistical head of the Secretariat of State for immigrants in 1981 and 1982, and was a member of the Stasi Commission and of the board of the ''Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration'' (Museum of the History of Immigration) - a position which, with seven others, he resigned on 18 May 2007, in protest against the creation of a ministry of immigration and national identity by

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Se ...

. He is president of the NG
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He is currently a visiting professor of law and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Senior Fellow and senior research scholar at the

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. Weil is the author o
''Le Sens de la République''
(Grasset 2016 with Nicolas Truong);

' (Univ of Penn Press, 2013);
How to Be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789
' (Duke Univ. Press 2008); ''Qu'est-ce qu'un Français? : Histoire de la nationalité française de la Révolution à nos jours'' (Grasset 2002) In ''

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'', Weil says "Edward Snowden can ask the competent authorities for France’s protection "to obtain constitutional asylum, a specific French protection for "freedom fighters". "Firstly, the French office of refugees and stateless (OFPRA) who is in charge of all the demands for asylum, will have to study his application and make a decision. If this office reject Snowden’s application, the national court of asylum right and the French council of State would decide on its case in first and then last appeal" (Le Monde, June 5, 2014).Edward Snowden has a right to asylum in France, Translation of an article published in Le Monde of June 5, 2014
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Other

In 1992, he received the PhD prize of the

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for his PhD work ''La France et ses étrangers.''

References

External links

Patrick Weil's profile
at the website of Yale Law School
Patrick Weil's website
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