Alain Supiot
Alain Supiot (* 1949 in France ) is a French legal scholar.
Professional career
After 1979 his doctorate at the University of Bordeaux for Docteur d'Etat en droit, became Supiot at this university in 1980, the aggregation of the law school. Since 2001 he is member of the Institut Universitaire de France (Chair dogmatique juridique et lien social). Him an honorary doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain was awarded in 2003. Supiot teaches at the University of Nantes. There he founded the Maison des Sciences de l' Homme Ange Guepin, a research facility, where a multi-disciplinary approach in the study of the transformation of social ties is pursued. He worked as a visiting scientist in 1981 at the Institute of Industrial Relations at Berkeley, USA, and 1989/ 90 at the European University Institute in Florence. In the years 1997 to 1998 he worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. From 1998 to 2001 he was chairman of the Conseil National du dévelloppement des sciences humaines et sociales, since 2008 he is a member of the Conseil scientifique de la Ville de Paris.
Supiot among other scientific advisor to the editorial board of the journal International Labour Review, the organ of the International Labour Organisation ( ILO).
Supiots works mainly deal with labor law, social law and the dogmatic justification of social ties. With his essay "The Spirit of Philadelphia " He has, as the review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 10 June 2010 to the French edition, " wrote a clever, controversial and even angry book" with which he encourages the ethos of 1949 by the ILO adopted the Declaration of Philadelphia revitalize.
Writings (selection )
- L'esprit de Philadelphie: La justice sociale face au marché total, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2010, ISBN 978-2-02-099103-2 German: The Spirit of Philadelphia. Social justice in times of boundless markets, translated by Ilse Utz, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg edition, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86854-231-8