Emmanuel Tawil is a French lawyer and academic, associate professor at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
[8] He also criticizes the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for acting as a means of putting pressure on Morocco.
[15] He makes the "positive secularism" mentioned by Benedict XVI one of the major contributions of his magisterium[16] He explains that the churches' right of asylum was restricted by Charlemagne before being abolished in 1539 by Francis I.
Regarding paedophilia cases, Emmanuel Tawil considers that the sexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston marked a turning point and that today the Church cooperates with the civil authorities and is not in a logic of secrecy or Omertà.
Emmanuel Tawil is: The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences awarded him the Gallet Prize in 2016 for his book "Justice et religion".