CEPEL

Louis Assier-Andrieu

Biography

  • Director of Research at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), former project manager in various offices of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice and the Interior.
  • Research into the historical anthropology of Western law
  • Visiting Professor and Fellow at Yale, Cornell, NYU, Tulane, Cambridge, Bonn and Barcelona
  • Professor at Sciences Po Law School
  • Member of the Centre d'Études Européennes (Sciences Po) and the Institute for Global Law and Policy

CEPEL activities during its term of office

The task was an exciting one: to bring into harmony a constellation of talents from political science, sociology, ethnology and law. The choice I made, with the support of the community, was to materialize the broader horizon that was now open to all, in terms of both theoretical ambition and the breadth of empirical territories, opening wide the doors to Catalonia, for example. The symbol of this approach was the transformation of the former "Centre comparatif d'études des politiques publiques et des espaces locaux" into the Centre d'Études Politiques de l'Europe Latine. The twofold challenge was, and still is, to avoid neglecting any aspect of politics and to take into account the strong specificities of countries with a Roman tradition.