Books & ideas

A European code of capital ?

Éric Monnet & Antoine Vauchez — 2024-12-31T08:49:00Z

Katharina Pistor has renewed the critique of economic inequality by showing how the institutions of private law form the lock of an unequal economic and social system.

Does the Law Protect the Environment?

Sarah Vanuxem — 2024-09-26T08:55:00Z

Is the law doing enough to protect the environment? Through an analysis of the concept of environmental crime, Grégory Salle shows that legal provisions are limited by a social vision that favors the technical and capitalist exploitation of nature.

Inventors' Rights

Sophie Harnay — 2024-07-09T12:51:17Z

Employees are the primary inventors, but they are often deprived of their rights by legal strategies that capture their expertise. In response, new forms of resistance are emerging, based on open access.

A Tribunal for the Planet

Pierre Auriel — 2024-04-25T07:18:00Z

Right to a healthy environment, rights of nature or of non-human animals: can environmental rights serve the cause of environmentalism? Legal expert Diane Roman analyses the pathways towards the jurisdictional enforcement of these new rights, and highlights the progress they have made, as well as their limitations.

Racist Violence before the Law

Magda Boutros — 2023-04-25T19:11:26Z

French law defines racism in terms of discourses, not actions. Based on an analysis of 731 crimes, R. Brahim shows how physical violence is compounded by psychological violence when the legislative and judicial system denies or downplays the racist nature of the crimes.

The Political Uses of Law

Pierre Auriel — 2023-01-31T08:30:00Z

From the landmark Bobigny abortion trial to the Affaire du Siècle climate justice campaign, can the law serve as an effective political tool for social struggles? Countering the image of a fundamentally conservative law, the sociologist Liora Israël looks back at the strategic uses of the law by the French left after 1968.

The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum

Chowra Makaremi — 2021-02-15T08:00:00Z

As the European border control agency is being criticized for its violent methods, the European Commission is working on a reform of the European Union migration policy. In this interview, the legal scholar Elspeth Guild explores the relation between decision making and the reality of migrations.

Nature Beyond Dualism

Claire Larroque — 2020-04-06T07:00:00Z

Modernity has been built on the idea of a fundamental divide between nature and culture, humans and non-humans, the world and the spirit. These distinctions are no longer viable, as shown by an interdisciplinary and collectively authored book.

What is a Public Health Problem?

Frédéric Orobon — 2020-01-30T08:00:00Z

Initially designed to protect the population, public health systems can lead to demands being made for personal rights. This process is illustrated by an unexpected comparison between the legalisation of abortion and the provision of drug consumption rooms.

By Soil and Blood

Jean-François Mignot — 2019-10-24T07:00:00Z

Which countries make it easiest for the children of immigrants to obtain citizenship, and which countries make it the most difficult? This essay gives an overview of birthright citizenship, which may be acquired by soil or by blood and may also include particular conditions or discriminations.