Olivier Duhamel is a French

French people

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 university professor and politician

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. He was a Socialist

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 member of the European Parliament

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 from 1997 to 2004.

Biography

Olivier Duhamel was born on 2 May 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine

Neuilly-sur-Seine

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, France

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He has taught at the University of Franche-Comté

University of Franche-Comté

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, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Washington

University of Washington

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 and New York University

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. He is a faculty member at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris

Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris

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, though he stopped teaching in 2010.

He was an advisor to the Constitutional Council of France

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 from 1983 to 1995, and to Georges Vedel

Georges Vedel

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 in 1993 and Edouard Balladur

Édouard Balladur

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 in 2007. He served as MEP

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 from 1997 to 2004.

He writes in the popular press for La Marseillaise and Valeurs Actuelles

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. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of another publication, POUVOIRS. He is an editor for the European Constitutional Law Review. He also appears on France Culture

France Culture

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, LCI

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, and Europe 1

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He is the Vice-President of Le Siècle

Le Siècle (think tank)

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. He is also a member of the Club des Juristes, a legal think tank

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in France.