Louis Assier-Andrieu

Biography

• Research Director at the CNRS; former policy advisor in various offices within the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice, and the Interior.
• Areas of Research in the Historical Anthropology of Western Law
• Visiting Professor and Fellow at Yale, Cornell, NYU, Tulane, Cambridge, Bonn, and Barcelona
• Professor at the Sciences Po Law School
• Member of the Center for European Studies (Sciences Po) and the Institute for Global Law and Policy

Actions Undertaken by CEPEL During Its Term

The task was exciting: to bring together a constellation of talents from the fields of political science, sociology, ethnology, and law. My decision—supported by the community—was to give concrete form to the now-broader horizon opening up to everyone, both in terms of theoretical ambition and the scope of empirical research, throwing wide open the doors to Catalonia, 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 Spaces” into the Center for Political Studies of Latin Europe. The dual challenge was—and remains—clear: not to overlook any aspect of politics a priori and to take into account the distinct characteristics of countries with a Roman tradition.