Frédéric Audren
Research Fellow (1st grade) at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Researcher at the European Study Centre (CEE-CNRS): frederic.audren@sciences-po.org
Holder of a doctorate in law since 2005, Frederic Audren has been an Associate Researcher Fellow at the CNRS (section 36: Norms and Rules) since 2006. He was appointed to the Centre de Recherche sur l’Action Publique et le Politique (CURAPP - Amiens), a Research Centre on Public Action and Politics, then to the Maison Française d’Oxford, and was an Academic Visitor at the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law (2008-2010). He is now an Associate Research Professor at the Sciences Po Law School, where he is also in charge of scientific coordination.
Frédéric Audren was awarded the Jean Bart Prize from the Law Faculty of Dijon University (2005) for his doctorate on the relations between jurists and social sciences. In 2009, he was awarded the Bronze Medal by the CNRS (section 36).
An important feature of his work is a constant dialogue between law and the other social sciences. Consequently, his research focuses on the development of a social and intellectual approach to the history of law and contemporary legal science. It is with this objective in mind that he is currently working with Jean-Louis Halpérin on a book about French legal cultures. The other research he is conducting at present focuses on the material forms of the production of laws (legal architecture, iconology, publication, etc.).
He was one of the founding members of the Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines (a journal on the history of social sciences) (1999) and of Clio@Thémis. Revue électronique européenne d’histoire du droit (a European e-journal on the history of law), of which he is the present editorial secretary. He has also been the editor-in-chief of Cahiers Trimestriels Jean Jaurès (a quarterly journal dedicated to Jaurès and his times) and of the Les Études sociales journal (a journal on social sciences). He also co-runs Nomodos, a topical blog on the history of the law.
Frédéric Audren has taught history of the law at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and at the University of Panthéon-Assas Paris 2, as well as sociology of law at the University of Picardie Jules Verne and at the University of Paris Ouest La Défense. He has co-chaired several seminars at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (the French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). He is currently teaching a course on the history of legal culture at Sciences Po.
His recent books include:
- Annie Stora-Lamarre, Jean-Louis Halpérin, Frédéric Audren (dir.), La République et son droit (1870-1930), Presses université de Franche-Comté, to be published at the end of 2010.
- Ecrits sociologiques de Maurice Hauriou, texts collected and presented by Frédéric Audren and Marc Milet, Paris, Dalloz, Bibliothèque Dalloz, 2008.
- Naissance de l’ingénieur social. Les ingénieurs des mines et la science sociale au XIXe siècle, texts collected and presented by Antoine Savoye and Frédéric Audren, Paris, Presses de l’École des Mines de Paris, Collection Sciences sociales, 2008.
Frédéric Audren has written numerous articles on the history of legal science and law faculties, and on the history of legal anthropology and sociology, among which:
- “Eugène Lerminier saint-simonien ou la nationalisation de la science juridique”, in Corpus, revue de philosophie, to be published in 2011
- “L’histoire à contre-courant. Discipline et indiscipline dans la section d’histoire du droit (1970-1990)” in X. Dupré de Boulois, M. Kaluszynski, (dir.), La Critique du droit des années 70 à nos jours. Histoires, influences et perspectives, Paris, LGDJ, collection Droit et société, to be published in 2010.
- “Louis Josserand ou la construction d’une autorité doctrinale”, Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Civil, janvier-mars 2009, n°1, p. 39-76 [with C. Fillon]
- “Qu’est-ce qu’une Faculté de droit de province au XIXe siècle ?” in Ph. Nelidoff (dir.), Les Facultés de province au XIXe siècle, Toulouse, Presses de l’Université de sciences sociales de Toulouse, 2009, p.17-60.
- “La justice, le gendre et le scandale des décorations. Aux origines du trafic d’influence” in B. Dumons, G. Pollet (dir.), La fabrique de l’honneur (XIXe-XXe). Les médailles et les décorations en France, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009, p. 119-142. [with P. Lascoumes]
- “La Belle époque des juristes catholiques (1870-1914)”, Revue française d’histoire des idées politiques, n°28, 2008, p. 233-271.
- “Un procès hors du commun ? Le procès de la Fraction Armée Rouge à Stuttgart-Stammheim, 1975-1977”, Annales HSS, n°5, 2008, p.1103-1034. [with D. Linhardt]
- “Comment la science sociale vient aux juristes ? Les professeurs lyonnais et les traditions de la science sociale (1875-1930)”, in D. Deroussin (dir.), La Faculté de droit de Lyon et le renouvellement de la science juridique sous la IIIe République, Paris, La Mémoire du droit, 2007, p. 3-50.
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