William Bourdon was born on 1956 and is a French lawyer of the Paris Bar Association who practices criminal law, particularly specializing in white-collar crime, communications law and human rights.
17 Facts About William Bourdon
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William Bourdon particularly specializes in defending the victims of globalization and crimes against humanity.
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William Bourdon has been with Bourdon Simoni Voituriez since 1979.
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William Bourdon is widely considered one of the most powerful international lawyers.
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William Bourdon is the son of engineer and manufacturer Philippe Bourdon, the grandson of Pierre Bourdon, former Michelin chief engineer, and the great-grandson of manufacturer Edouard Michelin, founder of groupe Michelin.
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William Bourdon studied at Lycee Janson-de-Sailly, then at the Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.
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William Bourdon holds a master's degree in and is a graduate of Sciences Po.
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Sherpa is housed on the premises of France Libertes; William Bourdon is a member of the Conseil d'administration of France Libertes and is the longtime lawyer of Danielle Mitterrand.
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William Bourdon was the lawyer for Transparency International, Survie and the Federation des Congolais de la Diaspora.
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William Bourdon is close to associations who provide help to foreign nationals without proper papers, such as Cimade, for whom he acted as an observer in 1992.
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William Bourdon distinguished himself in criminal law in the 1980s, for example with the defence of prostitutes in the Jobic affair, a police commissioner accused of procuring before finally being released.
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William Bourdon defended Yildune Levy, a close friend of Julien Coupat in the sabotage of SNCF overhead power lines, two French detainees held at Guantanamo sentenced by French justice, or the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
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William Bourdon defended police commandant Philippe Pichon, accused of leaking the police record files of two stars, D Debbouze et Johnny Hallyday, to publicize and denounce the system's flaws.
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In Senegal in 2000, William Bourdon filed a criminal complaint and charges of torture and crimes against humanity against Hissene Habre in the name of the FIDH.
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In March 2007, William Bourdon appealed to voters to vote for presidential election candidate Segolene Royal in a petition published by the Nouvel Observateur.
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In 2012, William Bourdon again grew closer to the Socialist Party and was part of Francois Hollande's campaign team.
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In 2017, William Bourdon was among the co-founders of The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, an organization whose aim is to defend whistleblowers, as well as strategically litigate and advocate on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens.