[vc_row u_row_style=”0″ u_row_paralax=”0″ u_row_scheme=”0″ css=”.vc_custom_1424970901038{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_cta h2=”The public (law) / private (law) divide: interferences, innovations, and cross-influences” add_button=”bottom” btn_title=”Read more” btn_style=”classic” css=”” btn_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fsiej.uclouvain.be%2Fen%2Fdroitpublicdroitprive%2F|title:The%20public%20(law)%20%20%2F%20private%20(law)%20divide%3A%20interferences%2C%20innovations%2C%20and%20cross-influences”]This research project does not only seek to continue and deepen, in the field of legal theory, the everlasting positive law debate on the distinction between private law and public law. It also aims to analyse this summa divisio in the broader context of a shift in the public/private divide…[/vc_cta][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_cta h2=”Foundations and transformations of contemporary law” add_button=”bottom” btn_title=”Read more” btn_style=”classic” css=”” btn_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fsiej.uclouvain.be%2Fen%2Fanalyse-critique-et-interdisciplinaire-des-transformations-juridiques-contemporaines%2F|title:Foundations%20and%20transformations%20of%20contemporary%20law”]Since its foundation in 1974, the Seminaire interdisciplinaire d’Etudes juridiques (Interdisciplinary Seminar for Legal Studies) has been working as an observatory of contemporary legal transformations. It hosts regular meetings on current issues in law and runs its own bi-annual peer-reviewed journal…[/vc_cta][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row u_row_style=”0″ u_row_paralax=”0″ u_row_scheme=”0″ css=”.vc_custom_1424970901038{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_cta h2=”Law in transition. Legal science in a post-growth society” add_button=”bottom” btn_title=”Read more” btn_style=”classic” css=”” btn_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fsiej.uclouvain.be%2Fen%2Fwhat-kind-of-training-and-what-kind-of-research-for-what-kind-of-non-lawyer-and-what-kind-of-law%2F|title:Law%20in%20transition.%20Legal%20science%20in%20a%20post-growth%20society”]A growing number of economists consider that we are about to enter a period of « secular stagnation », characterised by an economic growth that would be close to zero. These predictions are supported by the observations made by experts in energy and rare earth. The prospect of a steadily weak economic growth is obviously a source of great concern…[/vc_cta][vc_cta h2=”Law and literature. Law, language and translation.” add_button=”bottom” btn_title=”Read more” btn_style=”classic” css=”” btn_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fsiej.uclouvain.be%2Fen%2Fdroit-et-litterature-droit-langue-et-traduction%2F|title:Law%20and%20literature.%20Law%2C%20language%20and%20translation.”]Initiated in the U.S., the ‘Law and literature’ movement is now widely recognised as a new way of addressing the central issues of jurisprudence, philosophy and literary studies…[/vc_cta][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_cta h2=”What education and research for which (non-)lawyer(s) and for which law?” add_button=”bottom” btn_title=”Read more” btn_style=”classic” css=”” btn_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fsiej.uclouvain.be%2Fen%2Fquel-formation-pour-quelle-recherche-quel-juriste-et-quel-droit%2F|title:What%20education%20and%20research%20for%20which%20(non-)lawyer(s)%20and%20for%20which%20law%3F”]A permanent work in progress, this research avenue is divided into three main pillars: the education of law students, the methodology and epistemology of legal research and, the conception of law and of the lawyer’s role underpinning the evolution in the first two pillars…[/vc_cta][vc_cta h2=”Feminist approaches to law” add_button=”bottom” btn_title=”Read more” css=”” btn_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fsiej.uclouvain.be%2Fen%2Fapprochesfeministesdudroit%2F|title:Feminist%20approaches%20to%20law”]Law is not neutral: it has never had and does not have the same effects on men, women, and people whose gender identity does not correspond to this binary distinction. An analysis “through a gender lens” provides a better understanding of law, in its twofold dimension – as a tool of patriarchal domination and as a leverage of emancipation for women…[/vc_cta][/vc_column][/vc_row]