Petit, Chloé

Chloé Petit is a PhD student at Sciences Po's Law School, and has held an ATER post at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc since 2024. Since 2021, she has been preparing a thesis on the narration of politics through constitutional rhetoric under the supervision of Professor Guillaume Tusseau.

Far from being an anecdotal practice, the rhetorical mobilisation of constitutional language in political discourse pursues strategic ends. Although implicit, these aims can be revealed by analysing the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic strata of discourse. By studying the sociolinguistic effects of this rhetoric and the vision it gives us of the political order, it appears that it acts as a tool for preserving existing power relationships. In this sense, constitutional rhetoric is a manifestation of violence imposing a social and institutional status quo.

Before joining the doctoral school at Sciences Po, she studied in the ‘European jurist’ programme at the Université Panthéon-Assas and completed her Master 1 in public law at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin. She then went on to complete a Master 2 in ‘Security Law and Strategies’ (Paris II) and a Master 2 in ‘Mountain Law’ (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc). Alongside her law studies, she obtained a certificate in international relations and was particularly interested in political theory.

Fields of Expertise: Constitutional law, Critical legal theory, Philosophy, Linguistics, Discourse analysis.

Chloé Petit's publications

Contact: chloe.petit@sciencespo.fr