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Emmanuelle Barbara

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Work Department

Employment

Position

Senior Partner

Career

Emmanuelle Barbara, Senior Partner at August Debouzy, has been a member of the Paris Bar since 1993. As a Managing Partner of August Debouzy from 2001 to 2017, she created the labor department (comprising 35 lawyers, including 8 partners), which is involved in all areas of employment law and the development of HR strategies. In just fifteen years, her department has become a leading provider of labor law services and advice. In 2012, 2018 and 2024, Emmanuelle Barbara received the “Lawyer of the Year” award in labor law from Best Lawyers magazine. She teaches at Sciences-Po Paris’s School of Law in Master II level. She also actively participates, within multiple think tanks, in the debate on the evolution of French labor law.

She is a member of the board of directors of the French think tank Institut Montaigne and was a board member and approved qualified person of the French Central Agency of Social Security Organizations (ACOSS) between 2007 and 2017.

Languages

French | English | Italian

Memberships

Admitted to the Paris bar in 1993

Education

• Specialization Certification in employment, social security and social welfare law, 2000
• Postgraduate degree (DESS) in Business Law and Taxation, University of Paris II, 1989