User:Guy de bordas/Draft Alain Supiot

Biographical Elements/ Career Highlights
Ph.D. (University of Bordeaux, France, 1979), Professor tenure (1980), member of the « Institut Universitaire de France » (2001, chair of « Dogmatic Grounds of Law and Social Ties), Ph.D. honoris causa (University of Louvain, Belgium), Alain Supiot has successively been Professor at the University of Poitiers and Nantes, France (UMR-CNRS 6028). He created in Nantes the « Maison des sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin » (Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences), and more recently the Institute for Advanced Studies, which is promoting cooperations between the North and the South in the field of Social Sciences. His career has been landmarked by several years spent in foreign Universities and Research Institutes (Institute of Industrial Relations, Berkeley, USA, 1981 ; Florence University Institute, Italy, 1989-1990 ; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, 1997-1998). Member of the « Droit social » law review, he also authored numerous books focussing on labor law and social security law (among others : Critique du droit du travail, PUF, 1994) and participated to various collective works (among others : Le travail en perspective, LGDJ, 1998 ; Servir l’intérêt général, PUF, 2000 ; Beyond Employment. Changes in Work and the Future of Labour Law in Europe  Oxford University Press, 2001, 245 p.). He has presided at the National Council for the Development of Human and Social Sciences (whose works have been published at PUF, Quadrige collection, 2001, under the title : « Pour une politique des sciences de l’Homme et de la société »). He seats at the scientific committee of the International Labour Review and at the administrative board of the Foundation « Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Paris ». His actual research interests focus of the analysis of the dogmatic foundations of social ties. His last published book is L'esprit de Philadelphie. La justice sociale face au marché total, Le Seuil, 2010, and his last published book in English is Homo Juridicus - On the Anthropological Function of the Law,Verso, New-York-London, 2007.

Main Works Published in English