Vey & Associés

Virginie Lemarié-Faure is a lawyer at the Paris Bar and former Secretary of the Conférence du stage des avocats aux Conseils. Since joining the firm in 2017, she has been able to put to good use her experience of nearly twenty years working with lawyers at the Conseil d’Etat and the Cour de cassation, whose training she attended.

This experience has given her the technical skills and intellectual curiosity to immerse herself in particularly complex cases. She has also acquired a global approach to defence strategy, covering all areas of criminal law, from the initiation of proceedings to referral to the supreme courts, both domestic and European, and the conduct of international actions.

She has developed expertise in international criminal and human rights law through a number of major cases involving freedom of expression or other fundamental rights, combining the practice of domestic, regional (European Court of Human Rights, African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights), international (International Criminal Court) and UN (Human Rights Committee, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Committee against Torture) procedures.

In particular, she advises on extradition issues, the execution of foreign and European arrest warrants and the processing of Interpol notices, as well as challenges to sanctions, including as part of international defence teams.

After graduating from the University of Paris II (Assas), she went on to teach a number of courses there, and enriched her academic career with additional training in international law at the Paris Institute of European Legal Studies, Tulane University (New Orleans) and The Hague Academy of International Law.

She works in French and English.

An IHEDN auditor (55th national session, defence policy), she is a citizen reserve officer and as such is involved in the think tank of the Chief of Staff of the French Army. She is a member of DELF (Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum), the ECBA (European Criminal Bar Association) and the Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française.