Julien Jeanneney

Julien Jeanneney is a Professor of Public Law at the University of Strasbourg and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research focuses on French and comparative constitutional law, legal theory, administrative law, and civil liberties.

He is the author of a doctoral dissertation on “constitutional gaps,” a critical edition of the constitutional writings of Pierre-Louis Rœderer, a historical monograph on appointments to the United States Supreme Court (American Fever. Selecting Supreme Court Justices, 18th–21st Century), and an essay on electoral law (Against Proportional Representation). Additionally, he has published various peer-reviewed journal articles and contributed to edited volumes. He also co-edited a collective work on the relationship between legal scholars and the Constitutional Council since 1958.

A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, he holds master’s degrees in public law and philosophy, a Ph.D. in law from Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and an “agrégation” in public law. He has been a Jane Eliza Procter Fellow at Princeton University, a visiting scholar at Yale Law School, and an associate professor at Panthéon-Sorbonne University.