Information transmise par Fr. Audren:Maison Française d’Oxford presents: Trinity 2010 Lecture Thursday 13 May (5.00 pm) Maison Française d’Oxford Law as a special type of social link: a field study of a French Supreme Court Bruno Latour
(Sciences Po, Paris)

Présentation
Bruno Latour is a French anthropologist, sociologist, and a theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies. After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris, he is now a Professor and the Vice-President for research at Sciences Po, Paris.
In a series of books, he has been exploring the consequences of science studies on different traditional topics of the social sciences: religion, science, law, politics, etc. After a long field work on one of the French supreme Courts, he has published a monograph La Fabrique du droit. Une ethnographie du Conseil d'État. The English translation, The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'État (Polity Press, Cambridge) has just been published.

Chairs:

• Fernanda Pirie, CSLS-St Cross College
• Judith Scheele, All Souls College

Convenor:

• Frédéric Audren, CNRS-MFO

With the support of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford LieuMaison Française d’Oxford, 2- 10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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