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Corinne Lepage
Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage (French pronunciation: [kɔʁin dɔminik maʁɡəʁit ləpaʒ]; born 11 May 1951) is a French environmental lawyer and politician. She served as French Minister of the Environment in the Alain Juppé cabinets 1 and II 1995–1997 and as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) 2009–2014 for the North-West constituency.
She is the founder and President since 1996 of the Citizenship, Action, Participation for the 21st Century Party (CAP 21). She is also co-founder of the centrist Mouvement démocrate and served as Vice-President for the party until March 2010, when she announced that she was leaving the movement.
Lepage was born in 1951 into a Jewish family in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. She attended Sciences Po in Paris, where she obtained her law diploma and began practising law in 1975. At the same time, she was appointed Maître de conférences (the equivalent of a university lecturer), and later a Professor at Sciences-Po and Panthéon-Assas University from 1982 to 1986, and then at the Université de Paris at Val-deMarne from 1984 to 1990. She has taught at the Université de Paris at St.-Quentin-en-Yvelines since 2005. She is married and the mother of two children.
As a young lawyer, Lepage married Christian Huglo in 1983 and joined the latter's law firm, the first one specialising in environmental rights. In 1987 she joined the Conseil de l'Ordre des avocats.
In 1978, during the Amoco Cadiz disaster, when an American oil tanker caused a huge oil spill near the coast of Brittany, Lepage's law firm sided with the local authorities of Finistère and the Côtes-du-Nord against the American oil company Amoco. After a 15-year-long trial, Lepage's firm and the local authorities won, setting a precedent and giving greater protection to individuals, towns and regions victim of serious pollution.
She then worked on many cases concerning the environment, along with local associations, groups, companies or local government. Since 2006, Lepage has sided with the victims of the MV Erika oil spill of 12 December 1999 against Total among others. Since 2010, she supports the "Movement for the Rights and the Respect of Future Generations". She also works as a lawyer for the Association of the Victims of the Floods of La Faute-sur-Mere in wake of Hurricane Xynthia.
Lepage has also defended environmental interests outside of her political career, such as in the Paris and Brussels bar associations and by involvement in numerous NGOs. She is also the co-founder with Michèle Rivasi of the Observatory for Environmental Vigilance and Alertness.
With Gilles-Éric Séralini, she co-founded CRIIGEN (Committee for Research and Independent Information on Genetic Engineering), an organization that opposes genetically modified food.
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Corinne Lepage
Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage (French pronunciation: [kɔʁin dɔminik maʁɡəʁit ləpaʒ]; born 11 May 1951) is a French environmental lawyer and politician. She served as French Minister of the Environment in the Alain Juppé cabinets 1 and II 1995–1997 and as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) 2009–2014 for the North-West constituency.
She is the founder and President since 1996 of the Citizenship, Action, Participation for the 21st Century Party (CAP 21). She is also co-founder of the centrist Mouvement démocrate and served as Vice-President for the party until March 2010, when she announced that she was leaving the movement.
Lepage was born in 1951 into a Jewish family in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine. She attended Sciences Po in Paris, where she obtained her law diploma and began practising law in 1975. At the same time, she was appointed Maître de conférences (the equivalent of a university lecturer), and later a Professor at Sciences-Po and Panthéon-Assas University from 1982 to 1986, and then at the Université de Paris at Val-deMarne from 1984 to 1990. She has taught at the Université de Paris at St.-Quentin-en-Yvelines since 2005. She is married and the mother of two children.
As a young lawyer, Lepage married Christian Huglo in 1983 and joined the latter's law firm, the first one specialising in environmental rights. In 1987 she joined the Conseil de l'Ordre des avocats.
In 1978, during the Amoco Cadiz disaster, when an American oil tanker caused a huge oil spill near the coast of Brittany, Lepage's law firm sided with the local authorities of Finistère and the Côtes-du-Nord against the American oil company Amoco. After a 15-year-long trial, Lepage's firm and the local authorities won, setting a precedent and giving greater protection to individuals, towns and regions victim of serious pollution.
She then worked on many cases concerning the environment, along with local associations, groups, companies or local government. Since 2006, Lepage has sided with the victims of the MV Erika oil spill of 12 December 1999 against Total among others. Since 2010, she supports the "Movement for the Rights and the Respect of Future Generations". She also works as a lawyer for the Association of the Victims of the Floods of La Faute-sur-Mere in wake of Hurricane Xynthia.
Lepage has also defended environmental interests outside of her political career, such as in the Paris and Brussels bar associations and by involvement in numerous NGOs. She is also the co-founder with Michèle Rivasi of the Observatory for Environmental Vigilance and Alertness.
With Gilles-Éric Séralini, she co-founded CRIIGEN (Committee for Research and Independent Information on Genetic Engineering), an organization that opposes genetically modified food.
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