Maurice Hauriou

Maurice Hauriou

Maurice Jean Claude Eugène Hauriou (born August 17, 1856 in Ladiville , Charente , † March 12, 1929 in Toulouse ) was a French legal scholar . He studied law at the University of Bordeaux . In 1876 he completed his studies with a license . He received his doctorate in 1879. At the Concours d'Agrégation of 1882, which was central to the whole of France and which was then still uniform for all legal disciplines, Hauriou took first place ahead of Léon Duguit , his friend and later scientific opponent. In 1883 he became professor of legal history at the law faculty of the University of Toulouse . He received the chair of administrative law at the same university in 1888. Hauriou was elected Assesseur du Doyen in 1904 and dean of his faculty in 1906. In 1920, Hauriou was finally able to change to his preferred chair for constitutional law, because he held it until the end of his academic career (1926).

Hauriou was a member of the Conseil de l'Université , the relevant advisory council at the Ministry of Education in Paris . He was a corresponding member of the Institut de France and an associate member of the Royal Academy of Belgium , as well as a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Maurice Hauriou had two children. His daughter Geneviève died early, the son André also became a law teacher and became professor of constitutional law at the Faculté du Droit et de Sciences Economiques in Paris.

Fonts (selection)

• L'Histoire external du droit . F. Pichon, Paris 1884.
• La gestion administrative: Étude théorique de droit . L. Larose, Paris 1899.
• Principes de droit public . J.-B. Sirey, Paris 1910.
• Précis élémentaire de droit constitutionnel . Librairie du Recueil Sirey, Paris 1925.

• Écrits sociologiques . Dalloz, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-247-08088-5 .
• Roman Schnur (Ed.): The theory of the institution and two other essays by Maurice Hauriou. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1965, ISBN 978-3-428-01533-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Maurice Hauriou in the catalog of the German National Library