Xavier Blanc-Jouvan#

• 1950 Licencié-ès-Lettres (M.A. Philosophy), Univ. of Grenoble
  
• Licencié en Droit (LL.B.), 1950, Doctor in Law, 1956, Univ. of Grenoble
  
• 1959 Agrégé des Facultés de Droit (Droit privé), Paris
  
• 1976 M.A. Cantab., Univ. Of Cambridge, England

Academic curriculum:

• Professor of Law:
  • 1960 - 1961 Univ. of Antananarivo, Malagasy Republic
  • 1961 - 1969 Univ. of Aix-Marselle, France
  • 1969 - 1999 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 - 1999)
  • Société de législation comparée : Secretary General (1978-1996), then President (1996 - 1999)
• International:
  • International Association of Legal Science: Director of Scientific Work (1971 - 1977), Vice-President (1991 - 1997), 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)

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.