[Postponed] Inaugural speech by Yadh Ben Achour: A Hope of Revolution

Professor Yadh Ben Achour was born on June 1, 1945 in La Marsa, in a family of scholars from the historical university of the Zaytouna of Tunis. He studied law between 1964 and 1969 in Tunis, then in Paris. In 1974, he obtained his doctorate in public law under the supervision of Professor Georges Burdeau. Since then, he has pursued an academic career and held, between 1993 and 1999, the position of Dean of the Faculty of Law Sciences at the University of Carthage. During his academic career, he specialized in domestic and international public law and Islamic political theory. Appointed in 1988 as a member of the Tunisian Constitutional Council, he resigned in 1992 to protest against the authorities' attempt to liquidate the Tunisian League for Human Rights through a reform of the law on associations. After the revolution, he was appointed president of the High Authority for the Achievement of the Objectives of the Revolution, whose main mission was to liberalize the political system and prepare for the elections to the National Constituent Assembly. He is currently a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.