Founding partner admitted to the Paris Bar in 1969
Specialist in environmental law and public law
Christian Huglo has devoted his career as a lawyer and teacher to bringing environmental law into all sectors of public life and the economy, both nationally and internationally. After a spell at the European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Christian Huglo founded the law firm that bears his name on 1 January 1969, which quickly specialised in public law and environmental law cases, before joining forces with Corinne Lepage in 1978 to found Huglo-Lepage Avocats. Christian Huglo specialises in litigation, particularly in international pollution and environmental cases and legal expertise: the Amoco Cadiz case and the Chicago trial (1978-1992), the Erika, Levoli Sun and Prestige cases, international pollution cases in the Mediterranean, the Rhine, the Bay of Seine, the Moselle, etc. Specialising in corporate strategy in the environmental field, Christian Huglo also advises his clients on their operations in the environmental field.
- Litigation
- Design and strategy of civil and criminal environmental proceedings at national and international level
- Procedures before the administrative and financial courts
- Specialist in environmental law / public law
- Lecturer in administrative law and environmental law, universities of Metz (1974-1980), Paris I, Paris II (1980-2000) and at the CNAM (2008-2012)
- In charge of training and teaching at the Professional Training Centre of the Paris Bar Association
- Lecturer at the Collège des Hautes Etudes de l’Environnement et du Développement durable (1995-2002)
- Regular lecturer at the Ecole des Mines (1970-1980)
- Doctorate in law (The judge and the environment) University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (1994)
- Certificate of aptitude for the profession of lawyer, with honours, top of the class (1968)
- DES in public law (1967)
- Prize for administrative law and criminal law, Strasbourg Law School (1960-1961)
- Co-director of the JurisClasseur Environnement & Développement durable (Éd. Lexis Nexis, since 1992), of the journal Environnement & Développement durable (Éd. Lexis Nexis, since 2001) and of the journal Energie-Environnement-Infrastructures (Éd. Lexis Nexis, since 2011)
- Creator of the Code de l’environnement commenté and the Code de justice administrative commenté (Éd. Lexis Nexis)
- Author of more than 200 articles of doctrine. Recently : Mediation, group action… Environmental law and litigation faced with the new procedures instituted by the 21st Century Justice Act, Les Petites Affiches n° 91 of 8 May 2017, p. 7
- Author of Avocat pour l’environnement (Ed. Lexis Nexis, 2013) in which he recounts the main legal battles he has led since 1972 to bring about environmental law,
- Author of La justice climatique dans le monde (Ed. Bruylant, to be published in 2018).
- Co-author of the Declaration of the Rights of Humanity, commented article by article, with Fabrice Picod and others (Ed. Bruylant, forthcoming 2018).
- French
- English
- Facilitation and participation in numerous colloquia and conferences
- Member of the French Arbitration Association
- Member of the Cercle de l’Union interalliéeKnight of the Legion of Honour