The Brive university campus is now called the Robert Badinter campus. A plaque in his name and image was inaugurated this Thursday morning. Professor of law, lawyer at the Paris bar, Keeper of the Seals and President of the Constitutional Council, Robert Badinter is best known to the general public for his fight against the death penalty, the law to abolish which he brought before Parliament in 1981.
Robert Badinter died on February 9.
Law students involved in this tribute
Readings of texts by Robert Badinter were carried out by 2 Brive students, Martin Graille and Alicia Gouygou. For these 2 students in 3rd year of law in Brivestudying at the Robert Badinter campus is naturally not trivial:
“Yes when we know all the involvement he may have had with his work, the entire journey he has taken and all the transformations he has generated” explains Alicia. « It is simply a model, an example (…) In the world we live in, it's a little bit of a kind of light, a hope so that we can say to ourselves that ultimately we too can be capable of making changes. »
“It is an immense pride that the campus bears this name” adds Martin “it was called the Brive campus, it’s true that it was quite distorted and the fact that he is now called Robert Badinter, it denotes a littleso that’s that’s very good.”
“Continue your cause, your values”
« What should we remember from Mr. Badinter? » asks Martin. “Courage… Courage in the speech because he said things in Parliament, he made speeches which were undoubtedly controversial by a large part of the parliamentarians and therefore for me, it is also the courage to go against what people believe. Me, if I want to believe in my future, well I actually simply believe in it. And so it’s the same for all students, they also have to believe in their ability and they will succeed in their studies.”
For Alicia, “Robert Badinter is an exceptional figure in this respect, assigning your name to this university campus is simply continuing your cause and your values. ».
