Sciences Po Law School Doctoral Research Day

The First Doctoral Research Day of 2026, organized around the work of third-year doctoral students (D3), will take place on Thursday, April 16, 2026.

We are honored to welcome Professor Annelise Riles, who will deliver the keynote lecture to conclude the day.

Programme

9:30 - 11:00 Kind of Discourse

• Lokesh Vyas, Sciences Po Law School
  Genealogy of International Copyright Discourse (1850s to 2000)
• Yuting Liu, Fudan University
  A Study of the Core Controversies in the French PACS Legislative Process

11:15 - 12:45 Kind of Structure

• Paulette Bermudez-Jordana, Sciences Po Law School
  Legal Architectures of Disappearance in Jalisco
• Hamad Swaid, Harvard Law School
  Sovereignty as Infrastructure: Thinking of Sovereignty through Electricity

12:45 - 14:45 Lunch

14:45 - 16:45 Certaines manières de dire le droit

• Thibaut Mechler, École de droit de Sciences Po
  L'écoute à l'audience. Contribution à l'étude du droit processuel
• Thomas Windish, École de droit de Sciences Po
  La production du vrai par l’erreur en droit de la preuve civile québécois
• Noémie Gourde-Bouchard, École de droit de Sciences Po
  Composer, qualifier, justifier : le rapport des codificateurs en droit civil québécois

17:00 - 19:00 Keynote Speech

• Professor Annelise Riles, Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law
  Reimagining Hosting