Max Planck Law and Sciences Po Law School Sign International Academic Partnership to Support Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers

Max Planck Law and Sciences Po Law School announce the conclusion of an academic cooperation agreement establishing a partnership between two leading institutions in legal studies. The agreement seeks to strengthen inter-institutional support for early-career scholars, with particular attention to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers, while reinforcing shared commitments to research excellence, internationalisation, and early-stage academic career development. It is conceived as a light and flexible framework, enabling effective cooperation and providing a basis for future developments, including expanded mobility schemes, joint research initiatives, and potential teaching collaborations.

Under the agreement, each institution may send and host up to two doctoral or postdoctoral researchers per year, including faculty members, for research stays of up to two months per participant. The cooperation places a primary emphasis on research collaboration, academic exchange, and structured professional development for participating scholars.

Max Planck Law is a network of eight institutes engaged in legal research across a broad range of fields, from legal anthropology to tax law, based on six sites in Germany. It coordinates one of the world’s largest networks for doctoral and postdoctoral research in law, bringing together more than 400 researchers, 20 directors, and several hundred international visiting scholars each year, within a highly international and interdisciplinary research environment with a strong focus on comparative and transnational legal studies.

The agreement was signed in the presence of Anne Röthel, Chair of Max Planck Law; Julie Klein, Dean of the Sciences Po Law School; Guillaume Tusseau, Director of the Law Research Center of Sciences Po; and Julie Babin d’Amonville, Executive Director of the Sciences Po Law School.