[2015-2021] Scientific director of the programme Global Legal Studies Network
Biography
Gilles Lhuilier is Full Professor of law at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, head of Global Legal Studies Network (GLSN), the research program of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) on the globalization of law. Former lawyer to the Paris Bar, he is president of the International Society for Extractive Law and Practices, and a senior expert for several international organisations especially in the international extractives contracts area (oil, gas, mines). He wrote the fist book dedicated to transnational law in the French language.
Current research
From Energy law to Extractive law. Thirty years ago, the energy law discipline emerged especially in North America and Australia as an answer to the Transnational compagnies growing need due to the complexification of national regulations. Today, the extractive law discipline is emerging : its scope may seem narrower (Oil, gas and mining). Yet, it is global : (a.) it focuses on the global current standardization of extractive industries regulations and legal practices; (b.) it includes all the actors of the « extractive world » (i.e transnational companies but also host states, international and financial institutions, arbitrators and lawyers, NGOs, local and indigenous people); (c.) it gathers lawyers from all the continents, especially the new extractive continents from the global south.
Call for Tenders | Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) : "Les meilleures pratiques juridiques au service de l’acceptabilité sociale des projets miniers", consortium Faculté de droit de l’Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Faculté de droit de l’Université fédérale de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brésil) et l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Rennes (France).