Max Planck Law and Sciences Po Law School are pleased to announce the conclusion of an academic cooperation agreement establishing a partnership between two leading institutions in legal studies.
The agreement seeks to strengthen inter-institutional support for early-career scholars, with particular attention to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers, while reinforcing shared commitments to research excellence, internationalization, and early-stage academic career development. It is conceived as a light and flexible framework, enabling effective cooperation and providing a basis for future developments, including expanded mobility schemes, joint research initiatives, and potential teaching collaborations.
Under the agreement, Max Planck Law and Sciences Po Law School may each send and host up to two doctoral or postdoctoral researchers per year, including faculty members, for research stays of up to two months per participant. The cooperation places a primary emphasis on research collaboration, academic exchange, and structured professional development for participating scholars.
Established in 2009, the Sciences Po Law School in Paris is a premier institution that aims at educating high-calibre law professionals, capable of engaging in a constantly changing professional world, supported by the school’s vibrant academic community. It also houses a research centre, with some twenty professors, forty doctoral researchers, affiliated researchers, and post-doctoral students. The research centre hosts Sciences Po’s doctoral programme in law.
The work carried out at the centre aims to decompartmentalize legal research, to identify the historical trajectories and theoretical and epistemological foundations of legal objects, to identify emerging areas of law and to analyse the legal challenges of globalization and contemporary crises. The research team covers a broad spectrum of branches of law, from public law to private law, from international law to legal history, from comparative law to discrimination law, from the regulation of digital networks and technologies to the law of the environmental crisis. The research centre’s three main focus areas are legal culture and the humanities; political economy of law; and globalization, crises and transitions.
The agreement was signed in the presence of Anne Röthel, Chair of Max Planck Law; Julie Klein, Dean of the Sciences Po Law School; Guillaume Tusseau, Director of the Law Research Center of Sciences Po; and Julie Babin d’Amonville, Executive Director of the Sciences Po Law School.