Henri Temple (born 1 November 1945 in Montpellier, France), is a French professor, lawyer, philosopher and politician.
He received a Doctor of Juridical Science from University of Montpellier I with a thesis, "Les Sociétés de fait" (Partnerships by conduct or by estoppel).
In 1975, with Jean Calais-Auloy, he cofounded the first Centre of research in consumer protection. From 2000 to 2012, he became the direction of this Centre. He was also an expert close to the United Nations and European Union. He taught in Côte d'Ivoire, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania, Brasil, Algeria, Spain, Italy.
He is an international expert specialised in Economical Law and économics.
He is a member of France Arise ("Debout la France"), a Gaullist party founded by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan and is in charge of Foreign Affairs in the shadow Cabinet.
He is now well known in several countries for his major contribution to political philosophy with his General theory of the nation (2014). He innovates new concepts as "nationism" (a scientist approach of what a nation is, far from the violent nationalism), or the sociological precautionary principle explaining why and how a population can refuse massive immigration.
Les Sociétés de fait, theory, preface of Jean Calais-Auloy, Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 378 p., 1975.
English traduction of the Code français de la consommation (with G. Woodroffe), Légifrance, 2003.
Le droit de la consommation est-il subversif ? In Liber Amicorum, Jean Calais-Auloy, Dalloz, 2004.
Quel droit de la consommation pour l'Afrique ?, Revue burkinabè de droit, 2004 (Burkina Faso).
Droit de la consommation et économie de marché, Revue marketing et communication, 2005.
L'OHADA : le droit au service du développement, Accomex, CCI Paris, April 2007.
La traçabilité des produits alimentaires et non alimentaires, collection Techniques de l'ingénieur, November 2008.
Une nouvelle mission de l'avocat, la prévention des risques judiciaires et des crises en matière de consommation, Revue française de gestion industrielle, Ecole de mines de Paris, September 2007.