Émile Garçon

Émile Garçon (1851 to 1922) was a French jurist who served as a law professor at the University of Paris. A doctor of law of the Poitiers Faculty of Law in 1877 and agrégé of the law faculties in 1880, he became Professor of Criminal Law and Comparative Penal Legislation at the Paris Faculty of Law. His writings include a study of a German physiocrat prince and his correspondents the Marquis de Mirabeau and Du Pont de Nemours (1895), works on penalties that do not dishonour (1896) and a draft Russian penal code (1896), an annotated Code pénal (1901), the opening address to the first congress of the French group of the International Union of Penal Law in 1905, and Le droit pénal: origines, évolution, état actuel (1922).