Professor at the University of Paris II. He specializes in Constitutional Law and General Theory of State.
Director of the Michal Villey Institute in France and member of the French National University Council (NCUF).
Among his most important works: Eine deutsch-französische Rechtswissenschaft ?/Une science juridique franco-allemande?, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 1999 ; L’Europe en voie de Constitution. Pour un bilan critique des travaux de la Convention, Bruylant, 2004 and Théorie de la Fédération, P.U.F., coll. « Léviathan », 2007