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Research Seminar in Sociology of Law with Antoine Vauchez

22 January 2025 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar

The Sociology of Law Department arranges research seminars inviting local and international social scientists to present state-of-the-art research within various areas of law and society.

 

 

The Neoliberal Republic

Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France

22 January 2025 | 13:15 to 15:00
Room M331, 3rd floor, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 (House M), Lund.

Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France are the authors of The Neoliberal Republic: Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France. The researchers trace the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the rise of neoliberalism over the past three decades.

Based on interviews with dozens of public officials in France and a unique biographical database of more than 200 civil-servants-turned-corporate-lawyers, The Neoliberal Republic explores how the always-blurred boundary between public service and private interests has been critically compromised, enabling the transformation of the regulatory state into either an ineffectual bystander or an active collaborator in the privatization of public welfare. The cumulative effect of these developments, the authors reveal, undermines democratic citizenship and the capacity to imagine the public good.

Antoine Vauchez is a CNRS Research Professor at Université Paris 1–Sorbonne and a Permanent Visiting Professor at the iCourts research center at the University of Copenhagen. He is a co-author of How to Democratize Europe.

About the event

Location:

Room M331, 3rd floor, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 (House M), Lund and online.

Contact:

ole [dot] hammerslev [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se