Jean-Claude Bonichot was born in 1955. Graduate of the University of Metz, degree from the Institut d’études politiques, Paris, former student at the École nationale d’administration ; rapporteur (1982-85), commissaire du gouvernement (1985-87 and 1992-99), Judge (1999-2000), President of the Sixth Sub-Division of the Judicial Division (2000-06), at the Council of State ; Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice (1987-91) ; Director of the Private Office of the Minister for Labour, Employment and Vocational Training, then Minister for the Civil Service and Modernisation of Administration (1991-92) ; Head of the Legal Mission of the Council of State at the National Health Insurance Fund for Employed Persons (2001-06) ; Lecturer at the University of Metz (1988-2000), then at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (from 2000) ; Author of numerous publications on administrative law, Community law and European human rights law ; Founder and chairman of the editorial committee of the Bulletin de jurisprudence de droit de l’urbanisme, Co-founder and member of the editorial committee of the Bulletin juridique des collectivités locales ; President of the Scientific Council of the Research Group on Institutions and Law governing Regional and Urban Planning and Habitats ; Judge at the Court of Justice from 7 October 2006.