1. Jean-Jacques Urvoas was minister of Justice from 2016 to 2017.
16 Facts About Jean-Jacques Urvoas
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas represented Finistere's 1st constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2016, as a member of the Socialist, radical, citizen and miscellaneous left.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas was born on 19 September 1959 in Brest.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas's father was a pharmacist general in the army.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas describes himself as having been "a real dunce" at school.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas studied, in turn, law at the University of Western Brittany in Brest, political science at the University of Rennes I, and political communication at Paris I Jean-Jacques Urvoas then proceeded to the Sorbonne where he wrote a dissertation on politicians Michel Rocard and Simone Veil.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas taught constitutional law and political science in the law training and research unit.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas has been a member of the Socialist Party since the age of 18.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas served as First Secretary of the Federation of the PS in Finistere from 2000 to 2008.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas was elected regional councilor of Brittany in 2004 and became president of the socialist group.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas was elected deputy on 17 June 2007, serving in the XIIIth legislature and representing the 1st district of Finistere.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas announced his support for Francois Hollande just days before the first round of the Socialist presidential primary of 2011.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas was the author and rapporteur of a constitutional law proposal to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which the National Assembly adopted by a very large majority on 28 January 2014.
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Jean-Jacques Urvoas chaired this delegation in 2014 and published a monitoring report that included 105 proposals to reform intelligence.
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On 27 January 2016, Jean-Jacques Urvoas was named as the replacement to become the Minister of Justice for France.
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In September 2017, Jean-Jacques Urvoas returned to the academic life, saying that he would teach in Quimper, Brest, Paris-Dauphine, and Sciences Po.