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Chair in European Union law (DUE)
Ad personam Chair Marc Blanquet
A word from the holder
It was Guy Isaac who, from the beginning of the 1970s, carried out a study of European Community law at the University of Social Sciences of Toulouse, setting up and running what was then the CEDRE and the DEA in European Community law. He would arguably have been the holder of the university’s first ad personam Jean Monnet Chair, if fate and his sudden and premature death on 30 March 2000 had not prevented it. Two years after his death, it was logically, even morally, right that it was the only one of his doctors to become a professor who received this status.
Today, this centre has two Jean Monnet chairs; a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, a label awarded in 2012 and renewed in 2017; a research centre, the IRDEIC, bringing together 25 published lecturers and researchers; a European School of Law delivering 17 double degrees in cooperation with foreign universities; a Jean Monnet Module; and a particularly European-heavy curriculum driving law students to study compulsory courses with tutorials in European Union law in each of the 3 years of their licence, before progressing to a Master’s allowing them to access several Master 2 courses including in European law, the successor to the DEA created by Guy Isaac.
The website of the Chair provides a picture of the activities of its holder beyond just scientific publications, which are simply listed’.
Marc Blanquet
