Jean-Marc Poisson
Lecturing Fellow
Mr. Poisson received his Masters of Laws (LL.M.) degree in 2008 from Duke Law School. His areas of concentration were intellectual property, antitrust and international trade law.
Mr. Poisson was a Lecturer of Public Law at the University Paris XI Sceaux (School of Law) in Paris, France, from 1996-2006. He taught human rights and European law, administrative law, and constitutional law. Concurrently, from 2003-2007, he was an attorney with the Paris firm of S.C.P. Célice Blancpain Soltner, one the of sixty law firms admitted before the French Supreme Courts (legal brief and motions before the Conseil d’Etat – French administrative Supreme Court – and the Cour de Cassation – French judicial Supreme Court). His areas of practice were administrative law, European and competition law, constitutional law, pharmaceutical law, immigration law, pensions, and labor law in the public service. Mr. Poisson’s consulting and litigation include case management for companies such as Razel Frères (government procurement, public works, competition law and negligence cases); the French banking commission, French Pharmaceutical Federations, Axa (professional negligence and discipline), Air France and British Airways (air law, state property law), UGC (commercial land use planning), SAPRR and SASF (eminent domain and takings clause), Actelion Pharmaceuticals France. During this same time period, he developed an independent business including pro bono defense, public and pension law. From 2003-2005, he also gave lectures of administrative law at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP – Sciences-Po Paris).
Mr. Poisson completed Bar School (one year mandatory training in order to practice law in France) and CAPA (the Bar School’s final examination) in 2002. In 2001, he completed his Ph.D. thesis in public law, with honors, from the University Paris XI Sceaux, France; in 1996 received his Post Graduate Diploma in public law and European law, in 1995 received his Master in Public Law (public administration) and his juris doctorate in 1994. He has dedicated his post graduate diploma and his thesis for its Ph.D. degree to a deep investigation on the organization, functionality and efficiency of the French judicial system to protect human rights, confronting it with the demands of European and international law, and comparing it with the judicial systems of several member of the European Union. Mr. Poisson wrote several articles in the field of human rights and published his thesis (Human rights and fundamental liberties testing the duality of jurisdictions) and a study of European jurisprudence on affirmative action (The end of the exclusive advantages granted to the women in the public service).
He is fluent in both French and English. He completed the First certificate in English from the University of Cambridge in 1994, and advanced level of English at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1993.
