Olivier Duhamel (born 2 May 1950) is a French former university professor and politician. As a member of the social-democratic Socialist Party, he was elected as a member of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2004.

Contents

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 Accusation of incest and child abuse
• 2 Bibliography
• 3 References

Biography

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

He has taught at the University of Franche-Comté, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Washington and New York University. He is a faculty member of Sciences Po, though he stopped teaching in 2010.

He was an advisor to the Cons*utional Council from 1983 to 1995, and to Georges Vedel in 1993 and Édouard Balladur in 2007. He served as MEP from 1997 to 2004.

He writes in the popular press for La Marseillaise and Valeurs Actuelles. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of another publication, POUVOIRS. He is an editor for the European Cons*utional Law Review. He also appears on France Culture, LCI, and Europe 1.

He is the Vice-President of Le Siècle. He is also a member of the Club des Juristes, a legal think tank in France.

Accusation of incest and child abuse

Main article: Duhamel scandalSee also: Sciences Po §:Duhamel scandal

In January 2021, he was accused by his stepdaughter Camille Kouchner in a book *led La Familia Grande of sexually abusing her twin brother, Duhamel's stepson, when he was 13 in 1988: this offence is outside the statute of limitation for criminal charges. He subsequently resigned from the FNSP, his academic, and media posts. Saying “Being the subject of personal attacks, and eager to protect the ins*utions I work for, I resign from ." The allegations against him are said to have sparked an online movement of people speaking out about family abuse, and to have led to new laws toughening sexual *ault laws against minors. On 5 January 2021, Paris prosecutors opened an investigation into the allegations. In mid-April 2021, French media, citing sources close to the investigation, reported that Duhamel had admitted to sexually abusing his stepson.

Bibliography

• Chili ou la Tentative, Révolution/Légalité (Gallimard,1974)
• La Gauche et la Cinquième République (PUF, 1980)
• Dictionnaire des œuvres politiques (co-edited with François Châtelet and Évelyne Pisier, PUF, 1986)
• Dictionnaire cons*utionnel (co-edited with Yves Mény, PUF, 1991)
• Las Democracias (co-edited with Manuel Cepeda, TM editors, Bogota)
• Démocratie, démocraties (co-edited with Robert Darnton, Éditions du Rocher, 1999)
• Le quinquennat (Presses de Sciences Po, 2000, 2008)
• Vive la VIe République (Seuil, 2002)
• Pour l'Europe - Le texte intégral de la Cons*ution expliqué et commenté (Seuil,2003)
• Histoire des présidentielles (Seuil, 2007)
• Le starkozysme (co-written with Michel Field, Seuil, 2008)
• Droit cons*utionnel et ins*utions politiques (Seuil, 2009)
• Histoire de la Ve République (1958–2009) (co-written with Guy Carc*onne and Jean-Jacques Chevallier, Dalloz, 2009).

References