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Badinter, Robert

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Badinter, Robert (1928– )

French lawyer and socialist politician. He was appointed by President François Mitterrand as president of the French Constitutional Council 1986–95.

A reforming lawyer and close political associate of Mitterrand, Badinter served as his first minister of justice 1981–86 and was responsible for abolishing capital punishment in October 1981, handing France's two remaining guillotines over to a museum. His other modernizing and liberal reforms of this period included incorporating Article 25 of the European Convention of Human Rights into French law, enabling French citizens to take an appeal, in cases involving a claimed violation of human rights, to the European Court in Strasbourg.



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