Guillaume Merland

GIE Lysias mers et territoires

Head of the department administrations, local communities and public procurement

Guillaume Merland qualified as a member of the Montpellier Bar and as a member of the Montpellier Bar in 2011.  He holds a Ph.D. in public law, and specializes in public law and environmental law.

Guillaume Merland was an associate within the “local public entities and zoning” department of  an important law firm in Montpellier. His main practice areas include urban planning law, zoning, environmental law, local public entities and public procurement. Mr. Merland handles both counselling and litigation related work.

Guillaume Merland is a senior lecturer at the Montpellier Law School where he teaches zoning law, development law, public domain, and local public entities law. He is the head of the MA Program in “Local Public Administration”.

Guillaume Merland is also an active member of various training institutions such as the ENACT of Montpellier, the CNFPT of Languedoc-Roussillon and the ICH of Montpellier.

Education

Ph.D. Thesis in Public Law « The public interest concept in the case law of the Constitutional Council », LGDJ, Bibliothèque constitutionnelle et de science politique Collection, Tome 121, 2004. Constitutional Council thesis prize, University of Montpellier.

Publications

• Books

  • Constitutional law, Hachette Education, “Objectif concours” Collection, 2007
  • Constitutional law and administrative law, Hachette Education, “Top’ Fiches” Collection, 2008
  • Public law, Hachette Education, “Top’ Fiches” Collection, 2008

• Articles published in peer-review journals

  • “Decentralization of seaports: how to designate the local public entity that will benefit from transfer in case of multiple applicants?” AJDA, 2008, pp. 1041-1047.
  • Which constitutional reforms does a regionalization of France imply? Pouvoirs locaux, n° 70, 2006, pp. 143 à 150

• National reports

  • The role of the State in the airport sector, in La décentralisation en mouvement, colloquium organized in Paris (National Assembly) by the GRALE (Research Group on Local public administration in Europe) the 12th and 13th January of 2006, La documentation française, « Les travaux du Centre d’études et de prospective » Collection, 2006, pp. 105-106.