Serge Guinchard

Serge Guinchard (born May 9, 1946) is a French jurist who formerly taught at the Law School of Dakar and Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 and most recently at Panthéon-Assas University, where he is now Professor emeritus. He is often called upon as a legal expert and has produced reports on legal issues for the government of the Council of Europe, the French Minister of Justice, and NATO, among others. He has also held political posts in the metropolitan government of Lyon.

Education

Guinchard was born in the 4th arrondissement of Lyon and was educated in Caluire-et-Cuire and the northern suburbs of Lyon. After completing his secondary education in Lyon, he studied at the Faculty of Law of Lyon. He obtained his J.D. in 1974 and the Agrégation in law the year afterward.

Academic career

From November 1969 to September 1974 Guinchard was an Assistant in the Faculty of Law at the University of Lyon 2, then at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 after its creation. He then became a lecturer at Lyon 3 until December 1975. From January 1976 to September 1980, he was a professor in the Faculty of Law at Dakar University, heading the Private Law Section from October 1978; he then returned to the University Jean Moulin Lyon III, where he served as director of the insurance section then of the Institute of Judicial Studies and was Dean of the Faculty from May 1982 to September 1988. In 1988 he moved to Panthéon-Assas University (Paris 2), where he was director of the Institute of Judicial Studies for ten years, from 1990 to 2000; by statute and in number of students, this is the pre-eminent such institute in France. In 2001–02, he headed the Center for Research into Justice and Alternative Modes of Conflict Resolution, then from October 2001 to July 2003, he was director of the Center for Permanent Training.

During his time at Panthéon-Assas, he also served outside the university in several capacities: in 1988–89 and 1993–94, as head of the specialist commission on the legal disciplines for the French University of the Pacific; from 1992 to 1999 as a member of the Commission on Education for the National Council of Bar Associations; from 1991 to 1993 as director of the Bar Association training school for the Paris Court of Appeals; from 1996 to 2000 as a member of the administrative board of the National School for the Judiciary; and from 2000 to 2003 as director of legal studies at the École Normale Supérieure. He also served on the jury for the national agrégation in private law and forensic science: in 1984, 1988–89, and 2000–01, and from January 1992 to December 1995 was president of the National Council of Universities of which he was a member from 1987 to 1995 and again in 2000.

From 2003 his career became focused on administration when he became rector of the Academy of Guadeloupe, then in 2005 took up the same position at Rennes, which he held for a year.

In June 2007 he became Professor Emeritus at Panthéon-Assas University, and in May 2010 a Festschrift was published in his honour.

Academic associations and learned societies

Serge Guinchard is a member of several academic associations and learned societies:

• Member of the Société de législation comparée (Comparative Law Society) since 1972, honorary president of the procedural law section since 2006
• Member of the Association Henri Capitant des Amis de la culture juridique française (Henri Capitant Association of Friends of French Legal Culture) since 1976
• Member of the Société pour l'histoire des facultés de droit et de la science juridique (Society for the History of the Faculties of Law and Legal Science) since its inception
• Member of the Cercle des constitutionnalistes (Circle of Constitutionalists)

Legal reports

Specializing in matters concerning justice and the right of trial, Serge Guinchard has produced numerous reports at the request of international organizations and of the French and Senegalese Ministries of Justice (France and Senegal), many of which led to legislation:

French Ministry of Justice

• Chairman of the Commission named for him established on January 18, 2008 by Minister of Justice Rachida Dati, concerning the distribution of first instance civil litigation and possible civil diversions (including the issue of transferral to notaries of divorce by mutual consent) and criminal diversions. Report submitted June 30, 2008. The report contains 65 proposals for reform; as of 22 December 2010, 26 had been enacted into law.
• Chairman of the Commission established on November 28, 2002 by Minister of Justice Dominique Perben on the quality of civil justice. Specifically, implementation of a working group on training local judges and lay judges. Reports submitted in January and March 2003. Commission's work behind the decree No. 2004-836 of 20 August 2004 on the reform of civil procedure.
• Chairman of a working group established by Minister of Justice Jacques Toubon on foreclosure reform of foreclosure, July 1996–June 1997. Bill introduced in November 2005, became Ordinance No. 2001-461 of 21 April 2006.

Senegalese Ministry of Justice

• Co-author of draft law on commercial companies and draft code, which became the fourth part of the Code of Obligations after its adoption by the Senegalese National Assembly.

Council of Europe

• Expert assessment of judicial system and criminal procedure in Armenia with respect to its becoming a member of the Council of Europe and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; expert mission to Yerevan, September 1996; summary report submitted in 1997.

NATO

• Summary report in October 1974 on research concerning consumer protection under French and Canadian law, funded by a research grant (Laval University, July 1973; University of Montreal, September 1974).

Research and doctrinal positions

Comparative law

Recognizing the importance of studies in comparative law for training lawyers, Guinchard pursued such studies beginning with his second doctorate, for which his dissertation compared French and Swiss law. He studied the university system in Quebec in 1971 and in 1973–74 returned for a study of consumer protection under a NATO grant. As dean of the Faculty of Law at Lyon (1982–88), one of his concerns was the development of exchanges with other European and with American universities including Boston University, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Saint Louis University, Missouri. He instituted seminars in foreign law conducted by visiting professors from countries including Germany, Belgium, Canada, and Israel. When in 1995 he founded the law review Justice, published by Dalloz, he included a section on judicial systems in other countries, and also included such coverage in the journal Droit et procédures, where he headed the scientific committee, then the peer. Two of his students have written dissertations in comparative law; he has participated in conferences on comparative law; and he contributed to a book on comparative law, now in its 7th edition.

Human rights

From the beginning of his doctoral studies in 1969, Serge Guinchard became interested in fields other than trial law. Consumer protection and civil law and have more particularly attracted his attention. The common point of his research is the interdisciplinary approach of a law in perpetual motion, with an openness to other disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, and economics and with reference to other cultures and to humanism. Some of his writings are outspoken, even caustic and cover responsibility for miscarriages of justice, and his books include proposals for reform. Some of these have led to changes in the law, while others have not. He has harshly criticized the function of the Court of Cassation, the French supreme court, and contributed to the debate on judges' being Freemasons, regularly updated his contribution to the Dalloz Encyclopedia of Civil Procedure concerning the liabilities incurred due to miscarriages of public justice, and has studied judicial actions that may constitute a threat to human rights. and written on the removal of judges. In his writings he focuses on the assurance of rights as it emerges from the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights or, more recently, that of the Constitutional Council on priority issues of constitutionality, particularly in the areas of criminal procedure and jurisprudebce.

Consumer protection

Serge Guinchard proposed, in 1970, in a thesis for obtaining his second master 2 (Science criminal) and published in 1971, a series of reforms for the purpose of improve consumer protection by transcending traditional divisions of law in which he sees an obstacle to the emergence of a genuine economic law, including: the ability to give consumers the benefit of legal actions traditionally reserved for economic agents in competition law to stop illegal practices, the right to pursue collective action in defense of their combined interests affected, the latter proposal made him one recognized experts in a french class action, as evidenced by the application to expose its mechanism to the joint working group "Bercy-Vendome" held in 2005 at the initiative of French President of the Republic whose report inspired the bill passed by the Council of Ministers, November 8, 2006, the proposal of the socialist group recorded the Senate April 25, 2006 and the report of the Commission's information on the laws of the Senate "the group action in the French law: the complete protection of consumers". He was also interested in issues of misleading advertising, the right of legal action for consumer associations. Abroad, Article 138a, § 2 of the Belgian judicial code (in the wording of the Act of December 3, 2006) follows this reflection. This field of research in law of unfair competition and consumer law will never be abandoned by Serge Guinchard who even published a contribution to the principle of loyalty, both in competition law and civil procedure, thus connecting between substantive law and procedural law.

Civil law and Muslim law

Civilian training, Serge Guinchard wrote, in his first edition in 1970, half of the definitions of Civil Law Glossary legal terms, which he co-directs and has devoted his doctoral thesis in law (defended in June 1974)The allocation of property in French private law: testing a general theory. From the etymology of the verb "affect", he showed that the prefix ad to classify into two main categories in the assumptions which goods are assigned to a particular purpose: those for which a single direction, a direction is given to the property (and the allocation of premises to commercial use) and those in which the allocation is higher, by the creation of a genuine link between two goods (such as easements or common parts of a condominium that are related to the units). Their regime is moving around rules common to both categories of employment and rules specific to each of them because of the variability in the intensity of the assignment. The work of Serge Guinchard on Heritage Trust have inspired the legislature to adopt the Trust into French law Article 2011 and the status of individual entrepreneur limited, in which heritage institutions, separate from the personal assets of the Trustee or the individual entrepreneur, is assigned to a specific purpose in the deed of trust or in the founding of the proprietorship, the assets and liabilities transferred under the transaction mentioned in section 2011 of the Civil Code or the occupation of the individual entrepreneur referred to in Article L. 526-6 of the Commercial Code, form a heritage station. Serge Guinchard developed in his thesis the idea of splitting the assets, a "fighter" engaged in professional activity, the other "security", assigned to the preservation of family interests and it is this idea found in the aforementioned law of 15 June 2010 on the EIRL.
To Senegal, where he was seconded as a professor at the Faculty of Law of Dakar from January 1976 to September 1980, Serge Guinchard contributed one hand, to disseminate knowledge of law Senegalese family, in his personal and financial aspects (including Islamic law of estates), and, secondly, to reform the company law of this State. As regards the right of the family, he published numerous articles and case comments, emphasizing the conflict between tradition and modernity in post-colonial society in this particular field. Above all, he published the first book addressing the legal status of Muslim in this country estates. In direct contact with the High judicial and political authorities of the country, he practiced what might be called a "judiciary to influence" the passage of customary law in civil law codifications based on the post-colonial as well as reflected the assumption by the Senegalese courts solutions he advocated, particularly in the application of customs in time Serer and Ouoloff Islamized on devolution matrilineal herds of cattle and about the coordination in the last quarter of the twentieth century, inheritance of two statutes as diverse as those from the civil law (largely taken from French law) and Islamic law from, in a country with strong traditions and customary Islamized where Islam is the religion of almost the entire population. Regarding company law, Serge Guinchard participated in the preparation of the draft Code of civil and commercial companies of Senegal, became the fourth part of the Code of Obligations, after its adoption by Senegal's National Assembly, he advocated that Senegalese law incorporates the French model of corporate law, but also the Anglo-Saxon, in the hope of attracting investors tradition of common law. In both areas, he always taught these disciplines, along with teaching insurance law and its research activities and "jurislator".

Justice and law trial

On this field, an author, Bertrand Lissarague, called it a "lord of the proceedings" in the liber amicorum that were offered in May 2007. These two themes are now over thirty years, the field of research favored by Serge Guinchard. His approach consisted of first, conventionally, from the study (technical) of Justice and its institutions, Civil Procedure and execution means. But his willingness to explore new horizons that French civil law and the civil law took him very quickly, to go beyond: it not only explored the other traditional litigation (criminal and administrative procedures with the publication, mentioned earlier, in February 2000 of a book of Criminal Procedure (in collaboration with Jacques Buisson), but mainly it globalize the study of law and justice of the trial, in that it comes out of its procedural law ghetto technique to show that it is attractive to guarantee fundamental rights and that it is itself the guarantee of the rights guaranteed through the notion of a fair trial. In this regard, Serge Guinchard studied a right of trial humanist, beyond the procedural technique, based on human rights. It deepened the study of law to a fair trial, including its precise Dalloz processual law, fundamental rights of the trial and saw the procedural law of the law guaranteeing the rights procedural citizens, in terms of the European Convention on Human Rights and the French Constitution.

The globalization of the right of trial

Globalization means the right of trial here, as has been said, the willingness of law out of its ghetto procedural technique to show that it is attractive to guarantee fundamental rights and that itself is the guarantee of the rights guaranteed through the notion of a fair trial. This globalization is illustrated by the four developments to which it gave rise:

• Globalization as meaning the first law of the trial is viewed and practiced in all its technical dimensions, regardless of the type of litigation. Author or co-author of four books of Civil Procedure and enforcement procedures and a book of Criminal Procedure, all still reprinted, some each years: and two codes of civil procedure, one annotated 1986 to 1996, another commented, in 1999 and 2001. He also practiced all financial and administrative litigation (Regional Chambers of Accounts and Audit Court) when he was in charge of legal and judicial affairs for Mayor of Lyon and the urban community of this town, as that assistant vice-president of both communities (the litigation was within its two delegations of functions).
• Globalization even in the sense that before or alongside the trial, we found alternative dispute resolution (Alternative dispute resolution or ADR) and arbitration, which are the subject of significant developments in the works of Serge Guinchard of judicial institutions and civil procedure, and has integrated, in October 1991, he created the curriculum for Panthéon-Assas University, as a graduate diploma (today master 2 professional) in litigation and arbitration, alternative dispute resolution. Serge Guinchard insisted, in 1996, during a conference in Nice on 30 and 31 October 1996, on the importance taken by these means in the regulation of conflicts, but also their proceduralisation by the rules of fair trial. Ten years later, he advocated the extension of alternative dispute resolution in the report of the commission he chaired in 2008 on the reorganization of litigation and diversion, following the filing of this report conciliation and mediation have been reinforced by decrees n° 2010-1165, 1 October 2010 and n° 2010-1395, 12 November 2010 who returned the all of its proposals, in addition, Law n° 2010-1609 of 22 December 2010 introduced into French law a participatory process of negotiation assisted by counsel, the same one that Serge Guinchard had recommended in its proposal n° 47.
• Globalization, third, the exploration of social sciences other than strictly legal: anthropology, history, sociology, philosophy, literature, economics of justice., etc.., not to mention the contributions of foreign rights. Thus, Serge Guinchard created in October 1995 in conjunction with the founding of the review Justice, Dalloz ed., a postgraduate diploma (DEA, today master 2 search) Justice and the Law trial at Panthéon-Assas University, curriculum in which the study of procedural law is no longer to compare the three major administrative litigation, civil and punitive, but to transcend all disputes, including those of disciplinary bodies and regulatory authorities, under the light of other social sciences and drawing on international instruments protecting human rights and comparative law (a seminar was devoted to "Justices of the World" and entrusted to foreign lawyers: Shlomo Levin, vice president of the Israeli Supreme Court, Michel Bastarache, Judge at the Supreme Court of Canada, Jacques Van Compernolle, Professor at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, etc.). Seminars legal anthropology, sociology of justice, philosophy of law the trial, history and economy of justice, Justice in the literature of the great French and foreign classics, even in film, staked the diploma program.
• Globalization, Fourth, it is to anchor the study of law and justice trial in fundamental rights. In his book Proessual law/Human rights tria, Serge Guinchard designs procedural law (unlike Henry Visioz Henri Motulsky and some contemporary writers), not as a comparison of litigation in the immutable purity of their technical rules, but as the law tries to forge a link between everyone from common rules, which is found exposed in particular the jurisprudence of the Committee of Human Rights of the UN (on the basis of Article 14 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), the European Court of Human Rights (from Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) and the Constitutional Council (whose jurisprudence is increasingly important with the priority issue of constitutionality). And this link for more than 800 million Europeans under the Council of Europe. Serge Guinchard has become, through his writings, one of the leading specialists of the Covenant in New York Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 19 December 1966 of the European Convention on Human Rights of the constitutional law and especially the fair trial guarantees which are derived from these texts and jurisprudence and is likely to him that we must, both written, the changing face of procedural law, the transition from procedural legalism to humanism procedural.

From procedural legalism to humanism processual

In the writings of Serge Guinchard, processual law is no longer the law that reflect their procedural discipline by scrutinizing their procedural aspects of a purely technical, but the right of those interested in the common sources of inspiration for all litigation, their foundations, principles of natural law that are necessary in the conduct of all trials. This doctrine, that Serge Guinchard colleagues have termed "humanism processual" in the title of the book they gave him in May 2010, is playing an increasing role in construction, day to day warranty the guarantee of rights. It helps to bring out key principles that the contours of the procedural democracy of tomorrow.
a) Serge Guinchard tried to highlight what he called the triptych's right to a fair trial in his writings above, including the book Dalloz processual law: the right to a judge, including the effectiveness of this right by the removal of all barriers to financial and legal, the right to a good judge, with institutional guarantees: unity or duality of the courts; unit or collegiate courts, a higher court, independence and impartiality of the judge; secular courts, a language understood by litigants, and also by procedural guarantees, with a public procedure, fast and equitable within the meaning of the requirement of reasoned decision, the principles of equality of arms and the principle of contradiction, the right to carry out the judge's decision.
b) Serge Guinchard has advanced the idea as early as 1999, that three structuring principles are emerging behind the guidelines currently being held in each type of litigation, the principles that meet new needs, as expressed by litigants and citizens.
-Needof confidence in the institution of justice and respect for others, where a principle (structuring) of loyalty, particularly in the search for evidence;
-A need tolisten to the Other, whether the parties or the judge or of others, where a principle (structuring) of dialogue between parties and between them and J.;
-A need for closenesslast, but not necessarily in space, time taken to traverse a distance a substitute for geographical proximity, resulting in principle, also structuring, speed.
These are the guiding principles of tomorrow, emerging principles, which means they are not yet accepted by all. They structure all litigation and should be "put in letters of gold pediments courthouse". They reflect the advent of a procedural democracy.
c) Finally, Serge Guinchard has yet tried to show that we have entered a new era of exceeding pure technical procedural issues, not because they would become useless, but because they need to be revisited the light of globalization (which induces an attraction of civil procedure to guarantee fundamental rights) and in the light of a model law of the trial (the rules of fair trial are now the model of a right joint trial). Simple technique of organizing civil lawsuit (as the company is a technical organization of the company, among others), the procedure has become an instrument for measuring the effectiveness of democracy in our country As the European Court of Human Rights is closely monitoring.

Political Activities

Guinchard was Deputy Mayor of Lyon for two terms from 1983 to 1995, and Vice-President of the Urban Community of Lyon from 1989 to 1995.

Municipal Warrant and agglomeration 1983–1989

Key actions within the municipal mandate

Guinchard was elected Councillor and Borough Councillor Lyon in the seventh arrondissement of Lyon in March 1983. He was elected Deputy Mayor of Lyon, in charge of the Municipal Police, Administrative Police (relationships with merchants) and prevention of delinquency. Important actions which he took in this role include:

a) For the Prevention of Delinquency: the establishment of a support system for elderly and disabled people in financial institutions (banks, savings and post offices), the creation a system to protect high-risk businesses (jewelers, furriers, etc. ..) by connecting to a remote monitoring network, improving the security of public car parks, improving safety in swimming pools and skating rinks, creating a network of remote alarm which all could relate Lyon, after court proposals, the creation of twenty "community service" posts in the Lyon City Hall to accommodate offenders; installation of conscripts in public housing, creation and animation of a municipal commission of crime prevention in conjunction with the social partners, the judiciary and police participation in the facility in July 1983 and Matignon the work of the National Crime Prevention; monthly meeting with the Prefect of Police of the Rhone and the Departmental Director of urban policies for better coordination of municipal and state in the prevention of delinquency, developing and publishing a White Paper on crime Lyon.

b) In the Municipal Police: reform of paid street parking, improving the rotation of cars parked in the central business, establishing parking on rotating land provisionally free; laying humps outside schools; protection against sidewalk parking by installing anarchy of studs and stakes of quality control program of the lamps reorganization of the municipal pound with increased possibility of intervention for the benefit of Lyon can not leave their car in their garage privatization of impounded animals; privatization of wreck removal; establishment of mobile teams of municipal police officers specially assigned to double parking, improvement of equipment for police municipal building and municipal police stations in the boroughs of network development with a transit authorization policy against bus lanes to make sense of movement and double lanes reorganization and Chair of the Disciplinary Board of taxi drivers ; renovation of the entrance examination to the occupation of taxi drivers, creation of bicycle lanes in lanes protected.

c) In the administrative police: fixing objective rules and permanent clearance sales, liquidations and clearance; better understanding of these legal events, developing a regulatory pedestrian areas strict regulations permissions late opening of pubs and other nightspots.

Activities under the mandate of agglomeration

Elected Councillor for Urban Community of Lyon from 1983 to 1989. Participation in commissions and road transport. Member of the Board of Directors of the mixed enterprise company Lyon Parc Auto.

Municipal Warrant and agglomeration 1989–1995

At the heart of Lyon and urban policy

Responsibilities include, during this period, financial and investment planning, works and services of general resources, legal and insurance, vice president of the Urban Community of Lyon (monitoring of major contracts and delegated management, control of internal and external management, litigation and insurance), president of the private-public enterprise company Lyon Parc Auto (see below the next §), director of the civil hospitals of Lyon and Sytral (body organizing transport in Lyon), he participated in the policy of urban renewal Mayor Michel Noir, between 1989 and 1995, he was the closest collaborator, as expressed by an observer from the period 1989–1995: Michel Noir was surrounded by four aces, two brains are old companions, Henry Chabert and Serge Guinchard; the second, polished aggregate of Law, former Deputy Collomb. According to Philippe Valode in his book just quoted,"the new mayor (elected in March 1989) has four key ideas provide the agglomeration of structural facilities, develop the quality of education, starting by the younger, strengthen solidarity between the people of Lyon, the most poorly housed mothers of large families, transforming their city into a dark city where beauty triumphs. Thus the deepening of underground parking (see below) the development of green spaces and places, especially the construction and renovation of the HLM, the lighting, the development of universities in Lyon, the child in the city plan, multiplying the nursery and primary schools, the last true launch of the International City project decided by the municipality earlier, contribute to these goals. In this package, plus several initiatives in the cultural field, with the birth of a renovated opera under the pencil Jean Nouvel and the opening of the History Museum of the Resistance and Deportation, not to mention the rehabilitation of the Conservatory of Music and the transformation of the theater district in the eighth house dance ". Philippe Valode considers Serge Guinchard by the functions it performs then (Finance and Works) will be the main architect of the implementation of this program. Thus, Philip Valode he continues his presentation of this period the city of Lyon:Michel Noir led the galloping change, under the supervision of highly qualified financial assistant, Serge Guinchard. A total of six years from April 1989 to June 1995, investment in the urban area can be estimated at four billion francs. The money is primarily used for digging underground car park, mostly in downtown ... As policy to beautify the city, it is expressed through the illumination of monuments and bridges of Lyon, but also by the new alignment places Lyons.

At the City of Lyon

Re-elected Councillor and Borough Councillor Lyon in the seventh arrondissement of Lyon, March 19, 1989. Elected Second Deputy Mayor of Lyon (Michel Noir), responsible for finance, investment planning, work and generals. In this respect: the development and monitoring of the budget of the city of Lyon, determination of policy investment programming; equipment plans 1991–1993 and 1994–1995 (priority to child care, housing, parks and public; organization work in the city of Lyon: the rehabilitation of markets after the opera overhaul the record; launch a loan of one billion francs (in 1989), with the assistance of the National Credit by tender and competition between major French banks and foreign negotiating the renewal of concessions, EDF [electtricity company of France]/GDF [gaz company of France], negotiating the transfer of certain cultural facilities in the department; launch of audit procedures: Fund schools, Centre for social action; football club of Lyon; renewal of insurance contracts from the city of Lyon tender procedure following an audit, monitoring the litigation of the City of Lyon.

In para-municipal

Chairman of the private-public enterprise company Lyon Parc Auto. As such development and implementation of a program of construction of 8000 parking spaces in 6 years (see the next §). Administrator of the transit union of Lyons (SYTRAL). Participation in the launch of the Metro Lyons, line D, fully automated. Administrator Hospices Civils de Lyon and Hôpital Edouard Herriot. Administrator (SERL private-public development company in the region of Lyon). Director of Crédit Municipal de Lyon (as such audit of the finances of the organization and reorganization of the banking business). Director of the mixed enterprise company ICARE (computer equipment private-public company). Founding director of SEM Semifal land, who conducts a policy of land reserves. Member of the Lyon Urban Region, Association of consultation on the development of the urban area of Lyon, beyond departmental boundaries.

At the Urban Community of Lyon

Reelected advisor to the Urban Community of Lyon. Elected second vice-president of the Metropolitan in charge of management control, corporate control of mixed economy and delegated management, negotiation and monitoring of major contracts (sanitation, heating, water, incineration, cleaning, etc. ..), and general resources services. In this capacity: establishment of a system of internal management controls in the Urban Community and the external delegated management (including concession) and private-public companies. Negotiation of major contracts: Subway as MAGGALY (GTM/Matra); Cofreth (incineration); north peripheral highway (with Bouygues company); Sytral operating contract (union of public transport in Lyon); insurance Urban Community; City international market of national interest at Mions-Corbas. Quinquennial review of concession contracts: letting water (Compagnie Generale des Eaux, French company of water); sanitation cleanliness display; heating (Prodith company); market-station (Cibévial company); negotiation of BIA school facilities and ZUP. Mounting the carry trade financial land transactions through the creation of a private-public society for land (the Semifal); Concessioning cemeteries.

Other responsibilities

Member of Board of High School "Lycée du Parc" in Lyons; association management "Halle Tony Garnier"; the Association of Festivals, the association's convention center, the association of business incubators.

Chairman Lyon-Auto Park (1989–1995) - His policy of Contemporary Art in public car parks

Between 1989 and 1995, the city of Lyon began the construction of 8,000 parking spaces downtown, through the company Lyon-Parc-Auto, including Serge Guinchard was president at the same time. Under his leadership, a true cultural policy was implemented to incorporate works of art in these car parks, to organize a museum and an original rating. Georges Verney-Carron recounts the role of Serge Guinchard in this operation: the history of parks in Lyon has been an upheaval in 1990 following a challenge by Serge Guinchard. Everything in life begins with Yes. Yes the acceptance, openness, dynamics. Yes the command. And Serge Guinchard, we must pay tribute to him, said yes to contemporary. Do not forget that art would not exist without order, without public clients or private feel it necessary to give meaning by appealing to artists. What started it all, these are the first drawings of Jean-Michel Wilmotte for the Celestins Park. Serge Guinchard was stunned by their quality. It was the first time a car was referring to the context - in this case an italian theater. We have therefore relied on the creation, integrated designer, Yan Pennor's for the graphic identity and signage Lyon Parc Auto and contemporary artists associated with the design teams. In the same book, François Gindre said that "it was during a dinner that Georges Verney-Carron convinced Serge Guinchard, eminent jurist, exceptional brain, quite atypical, but which does was not really a culture in contemporary art, that artists alone are not sufficient to change the image of parks and they had to design not as warehouses, but as public spaces in its own right. Basically, the order after dinner was up multidisciplinary teams architects-artists-designers to create a new generation of parks ". From the observation of Serge Guinchard during this dinner that almost all the proposed future parking were placed in front of a monument in Lyon (see the museum and the Saint-Pierre Hotel de Ville) or on a cultural site (see the place of Celestins) or history (see the old school health Lyon) and his request that we be creative and we're trying to leverage this fact arose the proposal of Mr. Georges Verney-Carron mount a triple operation art:

• First, systematic integration of an original work of art, a contemporary artist, in every park and in association with the architect from the design of the book and it was agreed that all artists would be selected through competition, without any involvement of elected officials, which was strictly observed;
• Second, the combination of Jean-Michel Vilmotte as "architect of light", for all the parks, the architect selected (by competition) to construct the park;
• Thirdly, was chosen for the sign, Mr. Yann's Pennor it is to him that we owe the yellow and black instead of the traditional red and white, both outside of parks for report, and inside to guide motorists and this color choice has since been copied by other manufacturers to car parks, both in and outside of Lyon, notably in Paris and was made after a survey of motorists Lyon has revealed that these two colors, which are also of Grand Prix Formula 1, mostly in the responses returned. Six parks became the subject of this ambitious policy which was set design by Jean-Michel Wilmotte and signage Yan D. Pennor: Place de la République" (Republic Square) with an artist François Morellet (The fortunes of the Republic); "Place des Terreaux" (Terreaux square), with the New York artist Matt Mullican (Untitled ); "Place des Célestins" (Celestins square) with Daniel Buren (Upside-Below); the park said "Croix-Rousse (Red Cross)", with Michel Verjux (One-level and sub ground); the park in Berthelot avenue, with the young Israeli artist living in Lyon since 1982, Dror Endeweld (unnamed, countless units from January to December and from - 2 to 10; the railway station "La Part-Dieu", with Joseph Kosuth (The Adventures of Odysseus underground). The artistic policy initiated by Serge Guinchard was pursued by the presidents who succeeded him. She has earned the city to get a first international award in Vienna (Austria) in 1995.

Honors

Serge Guinchard has received the following honors for his studies and publications:

• Le Figaro Foundation bursary for academic excellence, 1966–67
• Faculty of Law, University of Lyon, 1st prizes:
  • 1965: civil law
  • 1967: history of private law
  • 1968: civil law and international private law
  • 1970: doctoral dissertation
  • 1974: State law doctoral thesis
• National faculties of law contest:
  • 1966: 2nd prize, civil law
  • 1968: honorable mention, civil law
• For his doctoral dissertation, La publicité mensongère en droit français et en droit fédéral suisse: étude comparative de l'autonomie au civil et au pénal d'un délit économique, 1971:
  • Award of the Legislative Academy
  • 1st prize, French Center for Comparative Law
  • Ministry of Education award of funds for publication
• For his state doctoral thesis in law, L’affectation des biens en droit privé français, 1974:
  • 1st prize, Superior Council of Notaries at Law in France
  • 1st prize, National Association of Doctors of Law
• Henri Texier 1 Prize for the defense of individual liberty, Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, 2000, for Procédure pénale, co-authored with Jacques Buisson.

In addition he has received the following awards:

• Medal of Honor of the Paris Bar, September 1993
• Medal of Honor of the National Chamber of Lawyers of the Appeals Courts, June 2004
• Medal of Honor of the Prefecture of Guadeloupe, September 2005
• 2008 Prize of the Association of European Mediators

Decorations

• Knight of the Legion of Honor, 2005, bestowed by François Fillon, Minister of Education
• Officer of the National Order of Merit, bestowed 2008
• Commander of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (knight, 1987; officer, 2001; commander, 2003

Publications

Editor

Serge Guinchard has edited or headed the editorial boards of the following publications:

• Encyclopédie Dalloz de procédure civile, Dalloz, since 1992
• Lexique de termes juridiques, Dalloz, since 1987 (co-director; published annually, 21st ed. 2013)
• Droit et pratique de la procédure civile, Dalloz (7th ed. 2011)
• Droit et pratique des voies d'exécution, Dalloz (co-director; 7th ed. 2011)
• General oral entrance examination for regional lawyer training centers: Préparation au grand oral, Lextenso / Gazette du Palais, published annually
• "Hypercours" book series, Dalloz, co-director since 1999. For the subseries "Droit privé", 18 volumes.
• Comment devenir avocat? sub-series within Carrières judiciaires book series, Lextenso / Gazette du Palais, since 1994
• Chairman of reading committee and board of the journal Droit et procédures, Revue des huissiers de justice
• Co-editor of the review Justices (1995–98); then editor of Justice (2000–01
• Co-editor of Revue générale des procédures (1998–99)

Author

• La publicité mensongère en droit français et en droit fédéral suisse: étude comparative de l'autonomie au civil et au pénal d'un délit économique. Dissertation, 1970. Bibliothèque de sciences criminelles 13. Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 1971. OCLC 802895013
• L’affectation des biens en droit privé français. Dissertation, 1974 (as Essai d'une théorie générale de l'affectation des biens en droit privé français). Bibliothèque de droit privé 145. Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence 1976. ISBN 9782275013985

The following books of which Guinchard is co-author, lead author, author or editor have been published in several updated editions and in some cases translated into other languages.

• Procédure civile. Précis. Paris: Dalloz. Published biennially in alternation with Hypercours. 30th ed. 2010. ISBN 9782247050208. 25th ed. translated into Chinese, ISBN 9787800837661. (with Jean Vincent, beginning with 20th ed., 1981)
• Procédure civile. Hypercours Dalloz. Published biennially in alternation with Précis. Paris: Dalloz 2009, 2nd ed. 2011. ISBN 9782247079551 (with Cecile Chainais and Frédérique Ferrand)
• Institutions judiciaires: organisation, juridictions, gens de justice. Précis Dalloz. Paris: Dalloz. From 9th ed. retitled Institutions juridictionnelles. 11th ed. 2011. ISBN 9782247110117. 5th ed. translated into Chinese. (with Jean Vincent and others)
• Droit et pratique de la procédure civile: droits interne et de l'Union européenne. Dalloz action. Paris: Dalloz. 7th ed. 2012. ISBN 9782247103966 (editor)
• Droit et pratique des voies d'exécution. Dalloz action. Paris: Dalloz. 7th ed. 2012. ISBN 9782247129348 (editor with Tony Moussa)
• Procédure pénale. Manuel. Paris: Litec / LexisNexis. Published annually. 8th ed. 2012. ISBN 9782711016204 (with Jacques Buisson).
• Droit processuel: Droits fondamentaux du procès. Précis. Paris: Dalloz. 7th ed. 2013. ISBN 9782247124817 (with Cécile Chainais and others)
• Lexique des termes juridiques. Paris: Dalloz. Published annually. 20th ed. 2012. ISBN 9782247116935. Translated into Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese. (with Thierry Debard and others).
• Comment devenir avocat. Carrières judiciaires. Paris: Lextenso / Gazette du Palais. Published annually. 10th ed. 2013. ISBN 978-2359710601
• Préparation au grand oral de l'examen d'entrée dans un Centre de formation d'avocats. Carrières judiciaires. Paris: Lextenso / Gazette du Palais. Published annually. 8th ed. 2013. ISBN 978-2359710595

Notes

References

• Coulon, Jean-Marie, ed. (2010). Justices et droit du procès: du légalisme procédural à l'humanisme processuel. Mélanges en l'honneur de Serge Guinchard. Dalloz. ISBN 978-2-247-08525-5.
• Gindre, François; Verney-Carron, Georges (2010). Ceci n'est pas un parc: Art, Architecture, design. Lyon: Editions Wording. ISBN 978-2-917659-08-3.
• Valode, Philippe (2010). Mayors of Lyon since September 1900 - History and Stories. Lyons editions of Art and History.