Georges Vedel

Georges Vedel (5 July 1910 – 21 February 2002) was a French public law professor from Auch, France.

Vedel is credited as being "the reviser of public law [in France]."

[1] He was a published author, having written manuals on constitutional and regulatory law, publications which both left their mark on generations of French legal experts.

He was nominated to this position by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the president of France at the time.

[2] Vedel was elected to seat 5 of the Académie Française on 28 May 1998, replacing René Huyghe.