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Claire Lemercier

CNRS Research Professor, HDR

Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO), Centre for History (CHSP), Department of History

Research Interest(s): Historical sociology of economic institutions, of capitalism, of justice

Discipline(s): History

Research Group(s): Public Policy and Transformations of the State; Law, Norms and Regulation; Work, Employment and Professions; Governance and Economic Organisations

Biography

Claire Lemercier is a modern historian and has been a researcher at CNRS since 2003 and a member of CSO since 2010.
She originally specialized in the history of French economic institutions, particularly hybrid public-private institutions. This led her to study chambers of commerce, commercial courts, and labor courts, and to compare 19th-century models of government in the United States and France (with Nicolas Barreyre) and notarial practices in 18th-century France and Italy (with Francesca Trivellato). She is currently conducting research on the history of apprenticeship in France in the 18th and 19th centuries (with Clare H. Crowston) and on access to the French supreme courts (lawyers and legal aid) from the 19th century to the present day (with Laure Blévis, Ana Maria Falconi, and Liora Israël). A specialist in quantitative methods in the field of history, particularly network analysis, Claire Lemercier has taught and published extensively on these subjects, often in collaboration with Claire Zalc. 

EDUCATION 

2012
Professorial thesis (habilitation à diriger des recherches) University of Paris 8

2001
PhD in History, EHESS, Paris

Projects

  • AVOCONSEILS: Access to justice and defense before the high courts. The role of barristers
  • Apprenticeship in France in the 18th and 19th centuries

Teaching

Quantitative Methods for History workshop ("L'histoire et l'historien.ne face au quantitatif") with Claire-Lise Gaillard and Claire Zalc, occasional workshops on methods in CSO and beyond

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

2024
Member of the editorial board of Past & Present

2021
Elected member of the Joint Administrative Committee and Medical Council of the CNRS

2018
Member of the Committee for Open Science (CoSO) at the Ministry of Research

2014-2018
Elected member of the Scientific Council

2013
Member of the steering group for “Réseaux et histoire” (Networks and History)

AWARDS

2012
Crédit Agricole Business History Award

2008
CNRS Bronze Medal

Editorial Activity

2009
Member of the editorial board of Entreprise & Society

publications

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