26 January 2011 - The Sciences Po Law School founds the Gide Loyrette Nouel Chair:

The Law School at the Institut des Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) is collaborating with France's leading independent law firm to found the Gide Loyrette Nouel Chair.

Five law professors invited for the Gide Loyrette Nouel Chair

The Chair for visiting law professors has been set up with the support of Gide Loyrette Nouel, a close partner of the Sciences Po Law School, and will welcome five law professors from universities around the world:
- Richard Gold, professor at McGill University,
- Katja Langenbucher, professor at the Goethe Universität,
- Martijn W. Hesselink, professor at the University of Amsterdam,
- Calixto Salomao Filho, professor at the University of São Paulo,
- Amr Shalakany, professor at the American University in Cairo.

They join other visiting professors at the Law School: George A. Bermann (Columbia), Nathaniel Berman (Brown), Scott Brewer (Harvard), Benoît Frydman (ULB), Ludovic Hennebel (ULB), David Kennedy (Harvard), Yasuto Komada (Tokyo), Rainer Maria Kiesow (Frankfurt), Lewis A. Kornhauser (NYU), Christopher L. Kutz (Berkeley), and Geoffrey Samuel (Kent).

The visiting professors are selected each year by the Law School Director and the departmental heads of studies: international law, legal history, legal philosophy and theory, intellectual property law, economic law, Islamic law, etc. They come from different continents and represent different legal traditions from around the world. The 16 visiting professors are fully integrated into the Law School's scientific community which also comprises 14 tenured professors, 5 associate professors, around one hundred adjunct professors (lawyers, judges, researchers, etc.) and 11 PhD candidates.

The Sciences Po Law School continues its international outreach

The policy to invite visiting professors is evidence of the Sciences Po Law School's strong international outlook. Students come from all over the world and are drawn from 32 nationalities. At the School they follow an international programme with much of the teaching in English. They can also take an English Track from the first year of the Master's degree through to the last year of their PhD studies and follow an exchange programme thanks to partnerships that the School has set up with top-tier foreign universities.

"We are delighted to contribute to the development of the Sciences Po Law School and to support its international ambitions. Through the visiting professors invited by the Chair - all eminent specialists in their respective fields - students will discover different legal systems. This will help to prepare them for the time when they come to practise in an increasingly globalised world and its markets. It is a major advantage for these young graduates", commented Christophe Eck, Managing Partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel.

The foundation of the Chair forms part of a long-standing partnership between Gide Loyrette Nouel and Sciences Po which also includes the Firm's sponsorship, now in its third year, of an annual scholarship worth EUR 12,000. This latest initiative is a sign of the Firm's commitment to training high-flying lawyers.

Press breakfast of 26 January 2011 to present the Gide Loyrette Nouel Chair foundation by the Sciences Po Law School. From left to right: Christophe Eck and Pierre Raoul-Duval, respectively Managing Partner and Senior Partner of Gide Loyrette Nouel, Christophe Jamin, Sciences Po Law School Director, Lewis Kornhauser, law professor at the New York University, visiting professor at Sciences Po, and Evgeniya Demyanova, a student at Sciences Po Law School, winner of the Gide Loyrette Nouel annual scholarship.