!!Xavier Blanc-Jouvan

*1950 Licencié-ès-Lettres (M.A. Philosophy), Univ. of Grenoble\\
*Licencié en Droit (LL.B.), 1950, Doctor in Law, 1956, Univ. of Grenoble\\
*1959 Agrégé des Facultés de Droit (Droit privé), Paris\\
*1976 M.A. Cantab., Univ. Of Cambridge, England
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__Academic curriculum:__
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*Professor of Law: 
**1960 - 1961  Univ. of Antananarivo, Malagasy Republic
**1961 - 1969  Univ. of Aix-Marselle, France
**1969 - 1999  Univ. of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
**1999 Emeritus Professor of Law
*Visiting Professor: 
**Univ. of Chicago Law School (Spring 1963)
**Department of Political Science, U.C.L.A. (Fall 1967)
**Univ. of Cambridge, England (Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science and Fellow of Queens’ College) (1976-77) 
**Columbia Law School (Fall 1998) 
**Cornell Law School (Fall 1999)
**Tulane Law School (Fall 2000)
**Louisiana State University Law Center (Fall 2001) 
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__Former and Present Positions:__
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*In France:  
**Centre d’Etudes Juridiques Comparatives, Paris I : Director (1985 - 1999)
**Société de législation comparée : Secretary General (1978-1996), then President (1996 - 1999)
*International: 
**International Association of Legal Science: Director of Scientific Work (1971 - 1977), Vice-President (1991 - 1997), then President (1997 - 2000)
**Member of its Executive Committee (called “International Committee of Comparative Law”) since 1988
**International Academia of Comparative Law: member (since 1980), Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee (since 1990)
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__Field of Scholarship:__ 
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Civil Law, Labour law, Comparative Law.
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__Author:__ 
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*Les rapports collectifs du travail aux Etats-Unis, 1957
*As co-author : Le droit anglais (with René David), 1994
*As contributing author : Labor Courts and Dispute Settlement Procedures, 1971
*Industrial Conflict : A Comparative Survey, 1972
*Discrimination in Employment, 1978
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Numerous contributions, articles and comments, in French and in English, on various subjects, especially in labour law and in comparative law.