Emmanuel Piwnica
experience
Emmanuel Piwnica is a lawyer at the Conseil d’Etat and the Cour de cassation, having previously practised at the Paris Bar.
A graduate of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, he was President of the bar at the Conseil d’Etat and the Cour de Cassation and President of the Société de législation comparée (Society of Comparative Law).
At service of innovation
Emmanuel Piwnica has always taken an interest in procedural innovations. He immediately developed his expertise in the area of preliminary rulings on constitutionality (QPC).
He is the author of numerous contributions on the principle of proportionality, constitutional review, and fundamental rights.
After having being member of the editorial board of the Revue internationale de droit comparé and of the journal Justice et cassation (the bar journal)
For all
His services and expertise are aimed at all those subject to the law, whether private or public, whether in private, public, criminal or international law.
He acts before Conseil constitutionnel, Conseil d’Etat, Cour de cassation and Cour des comptes.
Internationally, Emmanuel Piwnica practices before supra-national or foreign courts (Court of Justice of the European Union, European Court of Human Rights, Cour de cassation of Luxembourg, Supreme Court and Court of Revision of the Principality of Monaco).
Emmanuel Piwnica was a member of the examination board for the Certificate of aptitude to practise as a lawyer at the Conseil d’Etat and the Cour de cassation (CAPAC). He has been and continues to be actively involved in professional training for lawyers, magistrates as part of the training provided by the Ecole nationale de la magistrature (National School of Magistracy) and students.
