Interdisciplinary Seminar in Legal Studies

Director(s)

BERNARD Diane (directrice), BAILLEUX Antoine (directeur), CARTUYVELS Yves (directeur), DUMONT Hugues (directeur honoraire), OST François (président).

Members

Les membres du personnel académique et scientifique de l’USL-B rattachés à la Faculté de droit et en particulier:

outre les responsables précités, Nicolas Bernard, Sandrine Brachotte, Pierre-Olivier de Broux, Marie-Sophie de Clippele, Christine Guillain, Isabelle Hachez, Sophie Klimis, Quentin Landenne, Martin Mees, Olivia Nederlandt, Cécilia Rizcallah, Jeanne-Marie Roux, Annette Ruelle, Thibaut Slingeneyer, Alain Strowel, Sébastien van Drooghenbroeck, Jérémie Van Meerbeeck, Jogchum Vrielink, Lou Clemens, Emilie Colpaint, Giulia de Pascale, Gauthier Dierickx, Olivier Dussauge, François Fekete de vàri, Marie Frédérick, Mona Gérardin-Laverge, Alexander Masca Ovejero, Arthur Moury, Maëlle Rixhon, Oscar Torres Rodríguez, Louis Triaille, Norman Vander Putten.

External collaborator(s)

Pauline Begasse de Dhaem (BNB), Daniel Dumont (ULB), Guido Gorgoni (Université de Padoue), Massimo Vogliotti (Université du Piémont Oriental), Emmanuel Babissagana (Université catholique d’Afrique centrale).

About the Centre

Founded in 1974 by Professor Michel van de Kerchove, the Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Seminar aims to develop a critical, contextual and interdisciplinary study of the legal phenomenon. Attentive to developments in contemporary law, the Seminar aims to bring together all the active forces of the Faculty of Law of the Université Saint-Louis and, beyond that, a large number of jurists interested in legal theory, to engage in a dialogue with the social and economic sciences around legal concepts or "objects". The Seminar focused in particular on the nature of legal reasoning, the transformations of the role of the judge, the relationship between law and interest, the images and uses of nature, negotiated law, the relationship between law and literature, human rights theory, the paradigm of translation applied to European law(s), the theory of the sources of law, the role of law in (the transition to) a society out of growth, feminist approaches to law and the blurring affecting the public (law) - private (law) divide.

It is now working on "The (post-)truths of law".

The Seminar also publishes the Revue interdisciplinaire d'Etudes juridiques (http://www.siej.usaintlouis.be/publications/la-revue-riej) and has a youtube account on which videos of some of its sessions can be viewed (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJ_enh8lvlRm3lgaK7UXUw). Lastly, the Seminar publishes a collection of works summarising its work.

Keywords

law / interdisciplinarity / legal theory / law in context.

Ongoing project(s)

	Rethinking nature. Intersecting Perspectives on Environment, Gender and Health.
	Foundations and transformations of contemporary law.
	Legal research and education.
	Law in transition. Legal science in a post-growth society .
	Feminist approaches to law.
	Law and literature. Law, language and translation. .

Publications

Publications on DIAL (Dépôt Institutionnel de l'Académie universitaire 'Louvain')