Jules Liégeois

Jules Joseph Liégeois (1833 to 1908) was a French jurist, born at Damvillers in the Meuse, who taught administrative law at the University of Nancy for forty years and was a leading figure of the Nancy School of Hypnosis. After early administrative posts at Bar-le-Duc and Nancy he began formal legal studies in his late twenties at Strasbourg, where he defended a doctoral dissertation on the history and legislation of usury in 1863. Appointed by the minister Victor Duruy, he held the chair of administrative law at Nancy from 1865 until his retirement in 1904. He published on public and administrative law and on the relationship between economics and law, and he became known for medico-legal studies of hypnotism and suggestion, including the risk of hypnosis being abused for crime.