Adhémar Esmein

Jean Paul Hippolyte Emmanuel Adhémar Esmein (1848 to 1913) was a French jurist known for his textbooks on the history of French public law and French constitutional law. He also wrote monographs on other subjects, above all canon law, whose teaching in France he renewed through his works, and his History of Continental Criminal Procedure, first published in 1913, has been widely received in the academic literature. He obtained the agrégation de droit in 1875 and his doctorate in 1878, taught briefly at Douai, and in 1888 became professor of legal history and constitutional law at Paris. From 1898 until his death he also taught canon law at the École pratique des hautes études, and in 1904 he became a member of the Institute of France.