Idris Fassassi is a professor of public law at University Paris Panthéon-Assas, where he co-heads the comparative public law master’s degree.
He teaches courses and has published in the fields of constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, international human rights law and international criminal law.
Fassassi is also a judge on the French National Court of Asylum, where he was appointed by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
His Ph.D. dissertation dealing with the legitimacy of judicial review in the United States won several national prizes and was published in 2017. He recently co-authored Introduction au droit public (Introduction to Public Law, 2022) and Droit des libertés fondamentales (Fundamental Rights Law, 2021). He is in charge of the yearly chronicle of American constitutional law in the French Review of Constitutional Law.
Fassassi earned his Bachelor of Law, his master’s degree in public law and his Ph.D. in public law, summa cum laude, from Aix-Marseille University. He obtained an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was an Arthur Sachs Scholar, and is a member of the New York bar.
He was awarded the Louis Favoreu Prize for the best paper written by a young author at the triennial French Congress of Constitutional Law.
Fassassi was a visiting scholar at New York University School of Law and a Fulbright Scholar.
He previously interned at the French Constitutional Court (Conseil constitutionnel) and worked as an associate human rights officer at the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
Fassassi is a board member of the French Association of Constitutional Law.