Louis Assier-Andrieu

Biography

• Director of Research at the CNRS, former policy officer in various departments of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice, and the Interior.
• Areas of research on the historical anthropology of Western law
• Visiting Professor and Fellow at Yale, Cornell, NYU, Tulane, Cambridge, Bonn, and Barcelona
• Professor at the School of Law at Sciences Po
• Member of the Center for European Studies (Sciences Po) and the Institute for Global Law and Policy

Actions carried out at CEPEL during his term of office

The task was exciting: to bring together a constellation of talents from political science, sociology, ethnology, and law. My choice, supported by the community, was to materialize the now broader horizon that was opening up to everyone, both in terms of theoretical ambition and the scope of empirical territories, opening the doors of Catalonia wide, for example. The symbol of this approach was embodied in the transformation of the former "Comparative Center for the Study of Public Policy and Local Areas" into the Center for Political Studies of Latin Europe. The dual challenge was and remains clear: not to neglect any aspect of politics a priori and to take into account the strong specificities of countries with a Roman tradition.