Géraud de Geouffre de La Pradelle

Géraud de Geouffre de La Pradelle de Leyrat (1935-October 16, 2022^[1]) was an international jurist and a professor of French law.

He is the son of lawyer Raymond de Geouffre de la Pradelle, the grandson of Albert de Geouffre de La Pradelle and the uncle of Anne-Véronique Herter. He has two children with Claire Bardon Florence (wife Cédric Thomas) and Laure (wife François de Montpellier de Vedrin).

Emeritus Professor of the University of Nanterre,^[2] he worked from 1982 to 1988 at the center for information on Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners.^[3]

In 2003, he co-authored the first Que sais-je?, on homosexual rights.

In 2004, he chaired the Citizens' Commission of Inquiry into the Involvement of France in Rwanda, a collective denouncing France's actions surrounding the Rwanda genocide. In 2014, he co-wrote an article sharply critical of judge Jean-Louis Bruguière's 2006 ruling.^[4]

He was an occasional contributor to Le Monde diplomatique^[5] and was a member of the sponsoring committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.^[3]

• Droit international privé, avec Marie-Laure Niboyet, Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, ISBN 978-2-275-03035-7
• L'Homme juridique, Presses universitaires de Grenoble/François Maspero, coll. "Critique du droit", 1979
• Caroline Mécary et Géraud de La Pradelle, Les droits des homosexuel(le)s, PUF, Que sais-je ?, 2003, 1998, ISBN 978-2-13-053145-6

• Rafaëlle Maison; Géraud de Geouffre de La Pradelle (2014). "L'ordonnance du juge Bruguière comme objet négationniste". Cités (57): 79–90.
• Dzovinar Kévonian; Philippe Rygiel; Géraud de Geouffre de La Pradelle (2015). "Entretien avec Géraud de Geouffre de La Pradelle". Monde(s). 1 (7): 155–172.