Patrick Weil (born 14 October 1956 in Neuilly sur Seine) is a political scientist. He is a senior research fellow at
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
, 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 The French commission Stasi is a commission set up to reflect upon the application of the ''laïcité'' principle. Named after the chair Bernard Stasi, ombudsman of the (French) Republic (''médiateur de la République'') since 1998, and consisting ...
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.
He is president of the NG
Libraries Without Borders
He is currently a visiting professor of law and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Senior Fellow and senior research scholar at the
Yale Law School.
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 ''
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
'', 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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In 1992, he received the PhD prize of the National Assembly of France 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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French civil servants
Living people
1956 births
French male non-fiction writers
21st-century French historians