Imbert, Louis

Louis Imbert, a French-U.S. national, has been a doctoral candidate at Sciences Po Law School since September 2017. He is writing a doctoral dissertation entitled "The Constitution of Foreigners: A Comparative Analysis of Discourses of Constitutional Judges", under the supervision of professors Guillaume Tusseau and Serge Slama. He was granted a doctoral scholarship by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (2017-2020).

Since September 2023, Louis is a Teaching Fellow in Law on Sciences Po’s Reims campus. He teaches political institutions, constitutional law, immigration law and human rights law. 

Louis was a temporary teaching and research associate ("attaché temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche") in public law at Cergy University between September 2020 and August 2022. He taught administrative law, introduction to State theory and constitutional law.

Previously, Louis was a tutor and teaching assistant at the Migration Clinic of Sciences Po Law School (2016-2020). He also taught comparative (French-U.S.) immigration law and French constitutional law at Sciences Po Undergraduate College (2018-2020).

From January to June 2019, Louis was a visiting PhD student at the Law Faculty of the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.

Louis holds a master’s degree in Human Rights Law from Paris Nanterre University (2017) and a master’s degree in Economic Law from Sciences Po Law School (2015). He wrote his master’s theses on the recognition of refugee status for sexual minorities and on the protection of foreigners’ fundamental rights in the context of an evolving contemporary border regime. He is the author of several publications on immigration law and policy, amongst which an essay entitled Immigration : fabrique d’un discours de crise published by French editor 10/18 in March 2022.

In parallel to his studies, Louis has interned and volunteered at various human rights NGOs in France, South Africa, Spain and Chile, particularly in the field of migrants’ rights.

Louis Imbert's publications

Contact: louis.imbert@sciencespo.fr