Michel Ameller

Michel Ameller (* 1. January 1926 in El Attaf , province of Ain Defla , Algeria ) is a former French lawyer and civil servant, among others between 1995 and 2004. Member of the Constitutional Court ( Constitutional Council ) was.

Life

After attending school, Ameller studied law at the University of Algiers and the University of Paris , from which he graduated with a doctorate in law . He also graduated from the renowned Paris Institute for Political Studies Sciences Po ( Institut d'études politiques de Paris ) .

He then entered the administrative service and in 1952 became an employee of the National Assembly in the Palais Bourbon , where he spent his entire professional life until 1992. After he was chief of protocol in the general secretariat of the President of the National Assembly for ten years between 1955 and 1965, he became head of the materials department in 1965 and then head of the secretariat of the Committee on Culture, Families and Social Affairs in 1967 (Commission des affaires culturelles, familiales et sociales) . In 1970 he was appointed head of the scientific department and in 1976 as director of the social service before he became director of the scientific service in 1977.

After Ameller was Director General of the Legislative Service between 1978 and 1985, he was most recently Secretary General of the National Assembly from 1985 to 1992 and thus head of Parliament's administration.

Ameller, who also acted as an advisor to the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Parliament , was also an advisor to the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) on issues of human rights and technical cooperation, as well as an associate professor at the Panthéon University Assas (Université de Paris-II) .

On February 22, 1995, Ameller was nominated by the President of the National Assembly, Philippe Séguin, for a nine-year term as a member of the Constitutional Court . He held this position from March 5, 1995 to March 5, 2004.

For his many years of service, he was appointed Commander of the Legion of Honor . In addition, Venezuela awarded him the Francisco de Miranda Order and the Simón Bolívar Order in the commanding class.

Publications

• Les Questions, instrument du contrôle parlementaire (1964)
• Parlements, étude comparative des institutions représentatives (1966)
• L'Heure des questions au Palais Bourbon (1977)
• Le Progès technique au service du legislateur (1984)
• L'Assemblée nationale: au coeur de la democratie (1989)
• L'Assemblée nationale (1994–2000)

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Court constitutionnel