Chargé de recherche CNRS | Directeur d'unité adjoint de SAGE
I am an Associate Research Professor (Chargé de recherche) at the CNRS, based at the University of Strasbourg (Laboratoire SAGE), and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies).
My research examines law beyond the state from a socio-legal perspective, focusing on two main strands: legal globalization and private governance.
Disciplines: Law and Society, Sociology of Law
Research themes: Globalization of law, law and private governance, international courts, international arbitration
Ongoing projects: Codifying Digital Behaviour Around the World: A Socio-Legal Study of the Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct (funded by the Wikimedia Foundation Research Fund, with Giovanni de Gregorio)
Selected publications:
The Limits of Private Governance: Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery, Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing, 2021
The Evolution of International Arbitration: Judicialization, Governance, Legitimacy (with Alec Stone Sweet), Oxford University Press, 2017
L’arbitrage international ou le droit contre l’ordre juridique: Application et création du droit en arbitrage international, LGDJ, 2011
“The World in a Court: How the ICJ's Organizational Practices Promote Stability in a Contested Field,” Law and Society Review, 59/1, 2025, pp. 139-171 (with E. Shirlow)
“Canceling Disputes: How Social Capital Affects the Arbitration of Disputes on Wikipedia,” Law and Social Inquiry, 49/2, 2024, pp. 1060-1081
“The Centres and Margins of Transnational Law: Potential Developments and Methodological Challenges,” Journal of Law and Society, 49(Suppl. 1), 2022, pp. S51-S63
“How Migrations Affect Private Orders: Norms and Practices in the Fishery of Marseille,” Law and Society Review, 55/1, 2021, pp. 177-202
“Managing the Fishery Commons at Marseille: How a Medieval Institution Failed to Accommodate Change in an Age of Globalisation,” Fish and Fisheries, 20/2, 2019, pp. 419-433
“Competition and Cooperation in International Commercial Arbitration: The Emergence of a Transnational Legal Profession,” Law and Society Review, 51/4, 2017, pp. 790-824
“Treaty-Making between Public Authority and Private Interests: The Genealogy of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards,” European Journal of International Law, 28/1, 2017, pp. 73-87
Full list of publications:https://cnrs.academia.edu/FlorianGrisel | https://cv.hal.science/florian-grisel
