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Hill, Louis
PhD Candidate, Researcher
Louis Hill is a Ph.D candidate at Sciences Po Law School. His research, supervised by Prof. Sébastien Pimont and Prof. Vincent Forray, focuses on the formation and evolution of case-law. More specifically, his thesis is a critical and comparative study of the presumed ‘spontaneity’ and ‘adaptability’ of judge-made law.
Louis Hill holds a master's degree in Economic Law from Sciences Po Law School (2018), and graduated from Sciences Po in the social sciences (2015) and La Sorbonne (Paris IV) in philosophy (2015). Louis Hill also worked as a research assistant at the Collège de France (Chair ‘Droit International des Institutions’). At the Collège de France, he mainly helped Prof. Samantha Besson edit Consenting to International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and organize conferences on Democratic Representation in International Law. At Sciences Po, Louis Hill created and taught a comparative law course entitled ‘A Comparative Introduction to Legal Reasoning’. He also worked at Lille University where he taught several courses on the French law of obligations (Contract and Torts).
His main scientific interests lie in the fields of legal theory, comparative law, private international law, and tort law.
Contact: louis.hill@sciencespo.fr
