Scientific events

Law and Methods seminar 

This is the only mandate course to complete the requirements of the doctoral program. This course takes place over 3 years and must be attended by all doctoral candidates in residence. The course is animated by the permanent faculty and invited faculty on different topics exploring different methods and methodologies of research. The calendar of the sessions is distributed by the end of September/early October of each year. 

All sessions take place on Thursdays between 14:30-16:30 in the meeting room of the EDD, unless otherwise indicated. Readings are distributed before the sessions, which should be prepared in advance to partake in the discussion. 

Calendar:

Year 2: 2019-2020

• Mars 12, 2020 - Genealogy - Akbar Rasulov
• February 7, 2020 - Critical legal methods - Yishai Blank

• December 6, 2019 - Trade, Distribution and Development Under Supply Chain Capitalism - Dan Danielson
• October 17, 2019 - The analytical approach - Guillaume Tusseau
• September 26, 2019 - Global governance: Modes of critiques - Horatia Muir-Watt

Year 1: 2018-2019

• June 20, 2019 - Critical Legal Studies - Duncan Kennedy 
• May 9, 2019 - EU Legal Studies - Loïc Azoulai 
• April 11, 2019 - Clinical Work - Grounded Theory - Jeremy Perelman 
• February 14, 2019 - Bricolage de méthode - Sébastien Pimont 
• January 24, 2019 - Historical Anthropoly - Combats - Louis Assier-Andrieu
• December 6, 2018 - Law and Economics - Dina Waked 
• November 29, 2018 - Methodology and Theory - Jean d'Aspremont

Doctoral COLLOQUIUM

D1 doctoral candidates and D3 doctoral candidates present their projects and chapters at the D1 and D3 Colloquiums, respectively. These Colloquia are open the entire scientific community at the Law School to engage with their work. 

Calendar:

• October 22, 2020
• The Rise of African Investment Law - John Sabet
• Reconnecter le pouvoir et la responsabilité en droit des déchets - Garance Thomas
• October 15, 2020
• Law and Space. The Form of the Law and the Form of Cities - Vittoria Becci
• The dichotomy between the legal regimes of International and Non-International Armed Conflicts - Judith Kiconco
• A Narratological Analysis of International Legal Discourse - the Author, the Reader, and the Text Between Them - Rashmi Dharia
• June 4, 2020 - The Fabrication of Hegemony in Legal Systems - Promises of emancipation through technology and language - Nicolas Shaul
• May 28, 2020 - The judicialisation of access to medicines: assessing the impact of litigation as a strategy for allowing a fair access to medicines as part of the overall equity of health systems - Alice Dartevelle
• April 30, 2020 - Le mythe de la décadence au XXe siècle. Essai d'interprétation et analyse des enjeux démocratiques - Arnaud Miranda
• January 23, 2020 - Normativity in the West: from ratio scripta to economic ratio - Joachim-Nicolas Herrera 
• January 16, 2020 - La naturalisation du pouvoir d'exclure les étrangers - Louis Imbert 

Previous events: 2019, Doctoral Colloquiums (PDF, 92 KB)

The Intensive DOCTORAL Week, IDW (semaine doctorale intensive, SDI)

Initiated in 2011, the Intensive Doctoral Week is a co-organised initiative by Sciences Po Law School and the Law and Political Science Doctoral School of Paris Nanterre University.

The IDW further enhances its collaboration with universities worldwide. The Doctoral Programs of Kent Law School, University of Turin, University of Perugia, London School of Economics (LSE), SOAS University of London, Universidad de los Andes, The Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy of the Free University of Brussels (ULB) are associated with the event. 

Limited to a small number of PhD candidates coming from those institutions and other Law Schools, the Intensive Doctoral Week is conceived as a teaching Lab. Its aim is to enable candidates to present their research topics, discuss their work and be confronted with the ideas of renowned Law professors, both from France and abroad. The week is composed of events which can take many different forms, such as conferences or presentations from PhD students, workshops on chosen topics, reading groups, panels, informal discussions in small groups, or one-to-one meetings. Subjects will come from various areas of the law, but will always be treated in a general way in order to arouse curiosity from all students, even if they work on other fields.

Registered students will have to participate to all the working sessions. Registration is free. The two working languages are French and English.

• Intensive Doctoral Week 2019 (PDF, 704 Ko)
• Intensive Doctoral Week 2018 (PDF, 2,05 Mo)
• Intensive Doctoral Week 2017 (PDF, 1.6 Mo)

THE GRADUATE CONFERENCE

The Graduate Conference of Sciences Po Law School constitutes a yearly event that takes place during the Law School’s Intensive Doctoral Week (SDI) which runs every year in June at Sciences Po. Despite the diversity of themes and topics addressed over the years, its main goal is to establish cross-cultural and interdisciplinary conversations in order to critically engage with the legal phenomenon, understood in a plurality of ways.

To do so, young scholars and Ph.D candidates are selected and invited to join a panel among several as part of a more general Conference revolving around a particular theme or research question. The organization committee of the Conference, which is typically composed of first year Ph.D Candidates at Sciences Po Law School, chooses the themes, selects the speakers and provides the structure of the event.

Doctoral Candidates Seminars (SÉMINAIRE DES DOCTORANTS EN DROIT)

Doctoral seminars are seminars organized by doctoral candidates on various themes and take on different formats (film screenings, lectures, conferences, etc.) that stimulate discussions and interactions at the Law School.

AI Discussion Group

The purpose of this group is to gather researchers and practitioners from different disciplines and institutions, that are interested in AI. The group will serve as a platform for participants to present their work, provide feedback to others and discuss timely issues about AI. The goal is to enhance formal and informal collaborations between participants, exchange knowledge and broaden the outreach to the public. The group meets approximately once a month.

Contact: Doaa Abu Elyounes

Calendar:

• January 23, 2019 - Interdisciplinary working group on AI

IP Discussion Group

The IP Discussion Group is a research group at Sciences Po Law School bringing together doctoral researchers, post-doc researchers, faculty members, to discuss the contemporary topic of intellectual property rights and related fields. It provides a platform to exchange ideas, sharing research findings and receiving feedback from peers and faculty members. The Discussion Group organizes events and monthly seminars to discuss current IP development in the EU, French or International levels. The seminars and events are conducted in bilingual (French and English).

The Discussion Group is organized under the supervision of Professor Séverine Dusollier.

Contact: Pratyush Upreti 

Calendar:

• March 21, 2019 - Finding the Needle in a Legal Haystack 
• February 21, 2019 - Intellectual Property in Friendship, Commerce and Navigation Treaties 

Law and Cinema Club

Hosted by the Sciences Po Law School, the Law and Cinema Club selects and screens only the most intriguing films and documentaries, that all share a strong legal dimension. Our monthly screenings seek to regularly bring together a broad range of doctoral students and faculty staff for discussion and introspection.

Contact: Edward van Daalen

Calendar:

• November 28, 2019 - Behind the Curve (2018)
• October 17, 2019 - Footnote (2011)
• September 26, 2019 - Hail Satan? (2019)

Peripheries of Law

Peripheries of law is a research project created to bring together researchers coming from the so-called global south who wish to understand, engage and work with each other without the tutelage of hegemonic legal rationalities and epistemologies. This intellectual space should serve to both explore and re-frame the boundaries of law beyond the prevailing views on what law is and what law should be.

Contacts: Ghazal Miyar, Bruno Sousa Rodrigues and Pratyush Upreti 

Calendar:

• February 6, 2020 - Glocalizing the peripheries of law
• April 17, 2019 - Reconceptualizing Child Soldiering

We are Competition

As an academic initiative, We Are Competition was founded in 2018 to ensure the younger generations’ contribution to contemporary debates in competition law. Since January 2019, we regularly hold seminars and discussion groups where both students and more advanced scholars present their work. Our events aim to bring together young competition law enthusiasts with their peers, as well as scholars and practitioners. So far, we have covered the impact of digitalization on competition law enforcement, innovation-related challenges for competition law, the market power of big tech companies, multisided market dynamics in competition law, openness and integrity in antitrust, antitrust damages actions, and how to integrate sustainability into competition law enforcement. 

Contact: Ayse Yasar

Calendar:

• December 4, 2019 - Competition Law & Inequality
• September 10, 2019 - Climate Change Sustainability and Competition Law
• June 26, 2019 - Competition Law and Sustainability: Addressing the Broken Links

The IGLP’s global Workshop

Sciences Po Law School will be the co-sponsor of the annual workshop organized by Harvard’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP). This event is an intensive ten day residential program designed for doctoral and post-doctoral scholars aiming to promote innovative ideas and alternative approaches to issues of global law, economic policy and social justice in the aftermath of the economic crisis.

Directed by a team of Harvard faculty, and notably by Professor David Kennedy (Faculty Director of the Institute), the workshop aims to bring together specialists from across the arts and sciences as well as the professional schools who are interested in the intersections between law, economics and global policy.