Robert Lecourt
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Robert Lecourt (19 September 1908 – 9 August 2004) was a French politician and lawyer, judge and the fourth President of the European Court of Justice. He was born in Pavilly and died in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Significantly, in his role as a judge at European Court of Justice, he gave the landmark decision in the case of Costa v ENEL, establishing the supremacy of EU law over the law of member states.[1]
Biography
After studying at the Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle college in
He was president of the Youth People's Democratic Party in 1936, and a lieutenant at the Fort de Saint-Cyr in 1939, whereafter he became actively involved in the French Resistance and a member of the steering committee of the Resistance movement.
In 1958, he was elected in the first constituency of the
He served as judge on the
Soon after his election as president of the court, Lecourt developed a communication strategy to convince national judges of the benefits of the preliminary ruling mechanism, a procedure through which they could ask the European judges questions regarding the interpretation of the
After his retirement from the Court, Lecourt published "L'Europe des Juges" (Bruylant, 1976), an account of the major decisions and principles of European law, targeted at national lawyers and judges.[4]
Government roles
- Minister of Justice of the government of André Marie (from July 26 to 5 September 1947)
- Minister of Justice of the government of Robert Schuman (Popular Republican Movement, 5 to 11 September 1948)
- Vice-chairman, Minister of Justice of the government of Henri Queuille (13 February 1949 to 28 October 1949)
- Minister of Justice of the government of Felix Gaillard(6 November 1957 the 14 May 1958)
- Minister of Justice of the Government of Pierre Pflimlin (May 14 to 1 June 1958)
- With the special award of the constitutional reform
- Minister of State of the government of Michel Debré (January 8 to 27 March 1959)
- Minister of State, responsible for cooperation with African States and Madagascar, in the government of Michel Debré (27 March 1959 to 5 February 1960)
- Minister of State in charge of the Sahara, and Overseas Departments and Territories, in the government of Michel Debré (5 February 1960 to 24 August 1961)
See also
References
- ^ Hilf, Meinhard (2012). Costa v. ENEL case, in Wolfrum, Rudiger (ed.): The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 824.
- ^ William Phelan, Great Judgments of the European Court of Justice: Rethinking the Landmark Decisions of the Foundational Period (Cambridge, 2019)
- ^ Robert Lecourt (1908 - 2014) http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/37169
- OCLC 1030525124. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
Sources
- Former Members, European Court of Justice official website.