Georges Vedel (5 July 1910 – 21 February 2002) was a French public law professor from Auch,

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Biography

Vedel is credited as being "the reviser of public law

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" He was a faculty member of universities in Poitiers,

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, and Paris, at both Panthéon-Assas University. He was a published author, having written manuals on constitutional and regulatory law, publications which both left their mark on generations of French legal experts. Vedel was most well known for his theory of the constitutional bases present in regulatory law, a theory that united the field of public law in France. Georges Vedel was a member of the

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from 1980 to 1989. He was nominated to this position by

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, the president of France at the time. He is a fervent European and a well-known supporter of the federalist theories. Vedel was elected to seat 5 of the Académie Française on 28 May 1998, replacing

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Published works

*''An Essay on the Cause Notion of Regulatory Law''. (1934) *''Constitutional Law''. (1949) *''Regulatory Law''. (1958)

Reports

*''Long-term Perspectives of French Agriculture''. (published by La Documentation française, 1969.) *''Growth of Competency in the European Parliament''. (published by Journal des Communautés européennes, 1972.) *''Financing Public Business''. (published by J.O.C.E.S., 1976.) *''Management of Press Businesses''. (published by J.O.C.E.S., 1979.) *''Presidency of the Consultative Committee for the revision of the Constitution''. (published by La Documentation française, 1993.)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vedel, Georges 1910 births 2002 deaths People from Auch 20th-century French lawyers Members of the Académie Française Member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University faculty Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite University of Toulouse alumni Scholars of constitutional law