Ronald Maman

Ronald Maman was a member of the Paris Bar for over ten years.

Trained in commercial and criminal litigation at the Soulez-Larivière et associés law firm, he practiced as a criminal lawyer for several years, notably as part of the Paris Bar’s emergency defence team.

He then went on to specialise in Supreme Court litigation, working for a number of avocats aux Conseils (lawyers qualified to plead before the French Supreme Courts) in private, criminal and public law, and completed a six-month internship in the procedures department of the First Presidency of the Cour de cassation.

He obtained the Certificat d’aptitude à la profession d’avocat au Conseil d’Etat et à la Cour de cassation in 2018, after which he began to practice as an avocat aux Conseils in the Waquet-Farge-Hazan law firm, where he worked in criminal, private and public law.

He joined the firm in 2023.

Ronald Maman holds a Master’s degree in general private law. He also holds a doctorate in law from the Toulouse Capitole University (thesis on « The mens rea (élément intentionnel) in criminal business law » under the supervision of Professor Corinne Mascala), where he completed his studies and later gave lectures for several years.

Being a former secrétaire of the conférence du stage des avocats aux Conseils, he is now deputy secretary of the society of former secrétaires.

Ronald Maman is also a member of the Cour de cassation‘s legal aid office, and teaches Supreme Court litigation and criminal business law.

Publications :

• Revue droit pénal 2020, n°10, comm. 174 : Discharged with the benefit of the doubt but presumed guilty
• Revue Justice et cassation 2020, p. 423 : Decision on the merits before the Cour de cassation (co-written by Ms Bertille Massignon)
• Code monétaire et financier et Règlement général de l’AMF (Lexisnexis) : Comments on criminal law provisions and provisions on market abuse and money laundering (from 2012 to 2016)
• Report on the implementation of juries in criminal cases, presented before the French National Assembly, under the supervision of J.B. Parlos, E. Dezeuze and J.-H. Robert (2011)
• Site internet du Club des juristes : The status of the French public prosecutor’s office challenged by ECHR case law, 2008
• Semaine juridique éd. G 2008, n°12, act. 189, The Coulon report : chronicle of an anticipated decriminalisation
• Revue droit de la famille 2007, n°149 : Assessment of jointly-owned goods granted as a compensatory allowance (family law)
• Revue droit pénal 2007, étude n°3, The impossible escape (criminal law)