Pierre Legrand

Biography

A graduate of the Sorbonne and of the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, Professor Dr Dr Pierre Legrand teaches law at the Sorbonne for over fifteen years. Professor Legrand has been lecturing for more than two decades within the University of Cambridge’s summer school on English Legal Methods. Also, for nearly fifteen years he has been offering an annual course on comparative law at the University of San Diego School of Law as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. More recently, he has also been teaching annually at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago. Over a number of years, Professor Legrand taught the seminar in comparative law on the postgraduate programme at the University of Melbourne Law School while also teaching comparative law repeatedly within the undergraduate law degrees at the University of Timişoara in Romania and at the Centro Universitário Curitiba in Brazil. Moreover, he has held visiting professorships at the University of Toronto, at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, at the University of Copenhagen, at the Georgetown University Law Center, at the University of Uppsala, and at the National University of Singapore.

Research Interest

Professor Legrand has been lecturing for more than two decades within the University of Cambridge’s summer school on English Legal Methods. Also, for nearly fifteen years he has been offering an annual course on comparative law at the University of San Diego School of Law as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law.  Professor Legrand publishes in English and French. His work has attracted substantial scholarly attention in Europe, North America and Asia.  Over a number of years, Professor Legrand taught the seminar in comparative law on the postgraduate programme at the University of Melbourne Law School while also teaching comparative law repeatedly within the undergraduate law degrees at the University of Timişoara in Romania and at the Centro Universitário Curitiba in Brazil.  Professor Legrand teaches and writes with specific reference to salient theoretical issues arising from comparative interventions in a post-Westphalian world. In particular, he seeks to revisit the conventional models governing the comparative study of law by defending an oppositional stance vis-à-vis the core epistemic assumptions held by traditional comparatists.