Alain Supiot

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::summary French legal scholar (born 1949) ::

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name	Alain Supiot
honorific_suffix	FBA
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birth_place	Nantes, France
education	University of Bordeaux 1
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| name = Alain Supiot | honorific_suffix = FBA | birth_date = | birth_place = Nantes, France | education = University of Bordeaux 1 | employer = Alain Supiot (; born 5 June 1949) is a French legal scholar. His work is notable in two complementary fields: labor law and legal theory.

Supiot earned his licentiate in law in 1970 and in sociology in 1972, and received his Ph.D. in law from the University of Bordeaux 1 in 1979.

He has taught at the University of Poitiers, the University of Nantes, and the Collège de France.

He was elected as a corresponding fellow to the British Academy in 2015. He is a member of the Global Commission on the Future of Work formed by International Labour Organization.

Main works

• {{cite book |last=Supiot |first=Alain |publication-date=2017-11-30 |translator-first=Saskia |translator-last=Brown |title=Governance by Numbers, The Making of a Legal Model of Allegiance |series=Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn= 9781509907748 |year=2017
• {{cite book |last=Supiot |first=Alain |title=The Spirit of Philadelphia. Social Justice vs. the Total Market |year=2012 |publisher=Verso |location=London New-York |isbn=9781844677542 |pages=160 |url=http://www.versobooks.com/books/1049-the-spirit-of-philadelphia}}
• {{cite book |editor-last = Supiot |editor-first = Alain |editor2-last = Deakin |editor2-first = Simon |title = Capacitas. Contract Law and the Institutional Preconditions of a Market Economy |publisher = Hart Publishing |location= Oxford |year = 2009 |pages = 171 |isbn=978-1-84113-997-5
• {{cite book |last = Supiot |first = Alain |title = Homo Juridicus. On the Anthropological Function of the Law |publisher = Verso |location = London - New York |isbn = 978-1-84467-105-2 |year = 2007 |pages = XXV + 246
• {{cite book |editor-last = Supiot |editor-first = Alain |title = Beyond Employment. Changes in Work and the Future of Labour Law in Europe |publisher = Oxford University Press |year = 2001 |pages = 245 |isbn=978-0-19-924304-4

References

References

1. Alain Supiot, ''Wandel der Arbeit und Zukunft des Arbeitsrechts in Europa'', in ''Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit'', Beate Redslob (ed.), p. 293
2. "Curriculum Vitae".
3. [http://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-alain-supiot Fellow page] (accessed December 4, 2016).
4. [http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/future-of-work/WCMS_569528/lang--en/index.htm Global Commission on the Future of Work].

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