Research projects

This research project does not only seek to continue and deepen, in the field of legal theory, the everlasting positive law debate on the distinction between private law and public law. It also aims to analyse this summa divisio in the broader context of a shift in the public/private divide…

Since its foundation in 1974, the Seminaire interdisciplinaire d’Etudes juridiques (Interdisciplinary Seminar for Legal Studies) has been working as an observatory of contemporary legal transformations. It hosts regular meetings on current issues in law and runs its own bi-annual peer-reviewed journal…

A growing number of economists consider that we are about to enter a period of « secular stagnation », characterised by an economic growth that would be close to zero. These predictions are supported by the observations made by experts in energy and rare earth. The prospect of a steadily weak economic growth is obviously a source of great concern…

Initiated in the U.S., the ‘Law and literature’ movement is now widely recognised as a new way of addressing the central issues of jurisprudence, philosophy and literary studies…

A permanent work in progress, this research avenue is divided into three main pillars: the education of law students, the methodology and epistemology of legal research and, the conception of law and of the lawyer’s role underpinning the evolution in the first two pillars…

Law is not neutral: it has never had and does not have the same effects on men, women, and people whose gender identity does not correspond to this binary distinction. An analysis “through a gender lens” provides a better understanding of law, in its twofold dimension – as a tool of patriarchal domination and as a leverage of emancipation for women…