Xavier Blanc-Jouvan#
Born in 1930.
Licencié-ès-Lettres (M.A. Philosophy), Univ. of Grenoble, 1950.
Licencié en Droit (LL.B.), 1950, Doctor in Law, 1956, Univ. of Grenoble.
Agrégé des Facultés de Droit (Droit privé), Paris, 1959.
M.A. Cantab., Univ. Of Cambridge, England, 1976.
Academic curriculum:
- Professor of Law:
- 1960-61 Univ. of Antananarivo, Malagasy Republic.
- 1961-69 Univ. of Aix-Marselle, France
- 1969-99 Univ. of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
- 1999- Emeritus Professor of Law
- Visiting Professor:
- Univ. of Chicago Law School (Spring 1963)
- Department of Political Science, U.C.L.A. (Fall 1967)
- Univ. of Cambridge, England (Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science and Fellow of Queens’ College) (1976-77)
- Columbia Law School (Fall 1998)
- Cornell Law School (Fall 1999)
- Tulane Law School (Fall 2000)
- Louisiana State University Law Center (Fall 2001)
Former and Present Positions:
- In France:
- Centre d’Etudes Juridiques Comparatives, Paris I : Director (1985-99)
- Société de législation comparée : Secretary General (1978-1996), then President (1996-99).
- International:
- International Association of Legal Science: Director of Scientific Work (1971-77), Vice-President (1991-97), then President (1997-2000)
- Member of its Executive Committee (called “International Committee of Comparative Law”) since 1988.
- International Academia of Comparative Law: member (since 1980), Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee (since 1990).
- Academia Europaea : member (since 1989)
Field of Scholarship:
Civil Law, Labour law, Comparative Law.
Author:
- Les rapports collectifs du travail aux Etats-Unis, 1957.
- As co-author : Le droit anglais (with René David), 1994.
- As contributing author : Labor Courts and Dispute Settlement Procedures, 1971
- Industrial Conflict : A Comparative Survey, 1972
- Discrimination in Employment, 1978
Numerous contributions, articles and comments, in French and in English, on various subjects, especially in labour law and in comparative law.
