Louis Imbert, a French-U.S. national, has been a doctoral candidate at Sciences Po Law School since September 2017. He is writing a doctoral dissertation entitled "The Constitution of Foreigners: A Comparative Analysis of Discourses of Constitutional Judges", under the supervision of professors Guillaume Tusseau and Serge Slama. He was granted a doctoral scholarship by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (2017-2020).

Since September 2023, Louis is a Teaching Fellow in Law on Sciences Po’s Reims campus. He teaches political institutions, constitutional law, immigration law and human rights law. 

Louis was a temporary teaching and research associate ("attaché temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche") in public law at Cergy University between September 2020 and August 2022. He taught administrative law, introduction to State theory and constitutional law.

Previously, Louis was a tutor and teaching assistant at the Migration Clinic of Sciences Po Law School (2016-2020). He also taught comparative (French-U.S.) immigration law and French constitutional law at Sciences Po Undergraduate College (2018-2020).

From January to June 2019, Louis was a visiting PhD student at the Law Faculty of the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.

Louis holds a master’s degree in Human Rights Law from Paris Nanterre University (2017) and a master’s degree in Economic Law from Sciences Po Law School (2015). He wrote his master’s theses on the recognition of refugee status for sexual minorities and on the protection of foreigners’ fundamental rights in the context of an evolving contemporary border regime. He is the author of several publications on immigration law and policy, amongst which an essay entitled Immigration : fabrique d’un discours de crise published by French editor 10/18 in March 2022.

In parallel to his studies, Louis has interned and volunteered at various human rights NGOs in France, South Africa, Spain and Chile, particularly in the field of migrants’ rights.

La constitution des étrangers : analyse comparée des discours des juges constitutionnels colombiens, étatsuniens et français.

• Louis Imbert. The Increasing Significance of Public Order in the French Constitutional Council’s Case Law on Migration. Julie Ferrero; Kiara Neri. Les juges européens face aux migrations / the european judges faced with migrations, 122, Anthémis, pp.275-302, 2023, 9782807210066. ⟨hal-03946599⟩
• Louis Imbert. Endorsing migration policies in constitutional terms: the case of the French Constitutional Council. European Journal of Legal Studies, 2022, pp.63-95. ⟨10.2924/EJLS.2022.003⟩. ⟨hal-03686146⟩
• Louis Imbert. Immigration : fabrique d'un discours de crise. 10-18, pp.112, 2022, 9782264079855. ⟨hal-03618269⟩
• Louis Imbert. Les étrangers imaginés par le droit constitutionnel.. COGITO le magazine de la recherche à Sciences Po, 2020. ⟨hal-03946924⟩
• Louis Imbert. Premiers éclaircissements sur la protection internationale des « migrants climatiques ». La Revue des droits de l'Homme, 2019, ⟨10.4000/revdh.9262⟩. ⟨hal-03948367⟩
• Louis Imbert. Du palais des Droits de l'Homme au palais royal : chronique d'un renoncement jurisprudentiel face à l'argument de la crise migratoire. Revue des droits et libertés fondamentaux, 2019, 38. ⟨hal-03948913⟩
• Louis Imbert. Le maintien en zone d’attente : une privation de liberté ‘faisant frontière’. Isabelle Fouchard; Jean-Manuel Larralde; Benjamin Lévy; Anne Simon. Les sens de la privation de liberté, Mare & Martin, pp.17-29, 2019, 9782849344064. ⟨hal-03946823⟩
• Louis Imbert. Validation de la loi asile-immigration par le Conseil constitutionnel : de l'importance de l'objectif de lutte contre l'immigration irrégulière. Constitutions : Revue de droit constitutionnel appliqué, 2019, 3, pp.353. ⟨hal-03948972⟩
• Louis Imbert. L’agence Frontex au prisme du concept polysémique de frontière. Constance Chevallier-Govers; Romain Tinière. De Frontex à Frontex : vers l'émergence d'un service européen des garde-côtes et garde-frontières, 44, Bruylant, pp.149-161, 2019, 9782802763505. ⟨hal-03946878⟩
• Serge Slama, Louis Imbert. Loi Asile – Immigration – Intégration. Nouveau déni des droits des étrangers ?. Loi Asile – Immigration – Intégration. Nouveau déni des droits des étrangers ?, Clinique des droits de Clermont Ferrand; Hébergement et Solidarité Sans Frontières; Cimade 63, Dec 2018, Clermont-Ferrand, France. ⟨hal-01951388⟩
• Louis Imbert. Refoulements sommaires : la CEDH trace la « frontière des droits » à Melilla. La Revue des droits de l'Homme, 2018, ⟨10.4000/revdh.3740⟩. ⟨hal-03949000⟩
• Louis Imbert. Le visa sollicité en vue de demander l'asile ne relève pas du champ d'application du droit de l'Union. Constitutions : Revue de droit constitutionnel appliqué, 2017, 2, pp.299-305. ⟨hal-03949182⟩
• Louis Imbert. La coopération sans le(s) droit(s) : le foisonnement des accords « injusticiables » avec les pays tiers. Plein Droit, 2017, 3 (114), pp.45-48. ⟨hal-03949164⟩