Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe

Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe (born November 10, 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French lawyer , university professor and administrative officer who was a member of the Constitutional Court ( Court constitutionnel ) between 2001 and 2010 .

Life

Studies, employment in the Conseil d'État and ministerial official

After attending school, Dutheillet de Lamothe first completed a course in public service at the renowned Institute for Political Studies SciencesPo ( Institut d'études politiques de Paris ) , which he graduated with a diploma in 1970. A study of the law , he finished 1971 with a licentiate and later studied from 1973 to 1975 at the Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA), which traditionally formed the elite of the French administration officials and he as the best of the vintage Promotion Léon Blum graduated.

After completing his studies, he became a member of the Council of State ( Conseil d'État ) in 1975 , which is not only the highest administrative court but also the government's advisory body on legal issues, where he was rapporteur in the litigation section between 1975 and 1977 and then responsible until 1979 for the documentation and coordination center. In 1979 he was awarded the title of Maître des requêtes .

After Dutheillet de Lamothe was technical advisor on the staff of the Minister for Health and Social Security Jacques Barrot between 1979 and 1981 , he served as government commissioner in the individual sections of the Council of State for litigation from 1981 to 1986 and was at the same time a member of the Social Affairs section of the Council of State . In addition, he was legal advisor to the Directorate General for Civil Aviation between 1985 and 1986.

Subsequently, from 1986 to 1987 he was first advisor to the staff of the Minister for Social Affairs and Employment Philippe Séguin and then for eight years from 1987 to 1995 head of the industrial relations department in the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Vocational Training, during which time he also became in 1992 himself a member of the Conseil d'État .

Deputy Secretary General of the Elysée Palace and member of the Court constitutionnel

In 1995, Dutheillet de Lamothe moved to the Élysée Palace , where he was initially an advisor to President Jacques Chirac on social issues until 1997 and then Deputy Secretary General in the Presidential Office between 1997 and 2000, and thus Deputy Secretary General of the Élysée Palace Dominique de Villepin .

After leaving the Élysée Palace, between 2000 and 2001 he was rapporteur in the section for litigation of the Council of State and in the section for reporting and studies responsible for a group researching the influence of Romano-Germanic law and Anglo-Saxon law on international law . In 2001 he also accepted a professorship at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.

On February 26, 2001, Dutheillet de Lamothe was nominated by President Jacques Chirac for a nine-year term as a member of the Constitutional Court, the Court constitutionnel . He held this position from March 12, 2001 to March 12, 2010.

At the same time, in 2002 he became a member of the so-called Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law), an institution of the Council of Europe advising states on constitutional issues. In 2004 he also became President of the Cercle Jefferson, which emerged from the International Visitors group .

In 2010 he returned to the Conseil d'État as a member and has been chairman of the social section there since 2011.

For his many years of service, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of both the Ordre national du Mérite and the Legion of Honor.

Publications

• L'influence internationale du droit français , 2001
• Au carrefour de l'économique et du social: la politique de l'emploi , 2002
• Politique de l'emploi et dynamique des entreprises. Pour une nouvelle approche des politiques de l'emploi , 2005

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Court constitutionnel