- Gaston Jèze
Gaston Jèze (
Toulouse ,March 2 ,1869 –August 5 ,1953 inDeauville ) was a French professor of law and president of theInternational Institute of Law .He was largely responsible for promoting the establishment of finance as a separate discipline in the universities of France and contributed to the shift in thinking from the notion of power in the public sphere to the idea of public service.
He was an ardent human rights supporter. In 1933, he joined
René Capitant ,René Cassin , andGeorges Ripert in protestingNazi anti-semitism . He accepted an appointment as counsel forHaile Selassie ,Emperor of Ethiopia , who had been exiled fromEthiopia by the Italian troops ofMussolini .His involvement with Haile Selassie caused protests at the university at which he taught. Among the protesters was the young
François Mitterrand .During
World War II , he called in question theVichy government legislation on Jewish questions.References
*French Wikipedia article on Gaston Jèze
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