Patrick Weil


Patrick Weil is a French historian and political scientist. He is a senior research fellow at CNRS, at the at the University of Paris 1. His research focuses on comparative citizenship and immigration law and history and constitutional law.
He received his master's degree in public law from ESSEC business school before obtaining his doctorate in political science. He worked as cabinet logistical head of the Secretariat of State for immigrants in 1981 and 1982, and was a member of the Stasi Commission and of the board of the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration - a position which, with seven others, he resigned on 18 May 2007, in protest against the creation of a ministry of immigration and national identity by Nicolas Sarkozy.
He is President of the NGO .
He is currently a Visiting Professor of Law and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Senior Fellow and Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Law School.
Professor Weil is the author of ; ' ; ' ; Qu'est-ce qu'un Français? : Histoire de la nationalité française de la Révolution à nos jours
In Le Monde Patrick Weil says "Edward Snowden can ask the competent authorities for France’s protection "to obtain
constitutional asylum, a specific French protection for "freedom fighters". "Firstly, the French office of refugees and stateless who is in charge of all the demands for asylum, will have to study his application and make a decision. If this office reject Snowden’s application, the national court of asylum right and the French council of State would decide on its case in first and then last appeal".

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In 1992 he received the PhD prize of the National Assembly of France for his PhD work La France et ses étrangers.