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Guillaume François (G.F.) Larouche

GEM-DIAMOND doctoral fellow

ESR 8 – Technocratic actors as ‘teachers’ of the rule of law: EU technical assistance, capacity-building and other pathways

As a member of GEM-DIAMOND, I am part of a community of researchers whose purpose is to produce empirical, scientific & data-driven legal research and to develop critical thinking in research.

Host Institutions

The Restructuration of the ISDS Field by Arbitration Professionals: A Sociolegal Study

Supervisors

  • Mikael Madsen
  • Jean-Frederic Morin
  • Chloé Brière
Guillaume François (G.F.) Larouche is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow within the Horizon Europe GEM-DIAMOND project and an SSHRC Nelson Mandela Scholar. He is currently conducting a joint PhD in Law and International Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Université Laval, and Université Libre de Bruxelles. He works under the supervision of Professors Mikael Rask Madsen, Jean-Frédéric Morin, and Chloé Brière.

His PhD dissertation explores the EU proposal to reform ISDS from a sociolegal perspective. As such, he is particularly interested in the role of legal professionals in the making of this proposal. Since 2024, he is attending the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Working Group III on Possible ISDS Reform as a delegate of the Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Governance (iCourts).

G.F. is a member of iCourts, an affiliated PhD Researcher at the Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy (Université Laval), and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for European Studies/Institut d’études européennes (Université libre de Bruxelles).

His research interests include international economic law, public international law, empirical legal studies, sociology of law, the legal profession, the rule of law, Critical Legal Studies, arbitration and the judiciary.

He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Ottawa (he received the mention “Excellent” for his master's thesis), a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Université Laval, and an Advanced Certificate in French and European Law from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

He is a member of the Barreau du Québec since January 2020. He practiced law in Montréal from 2020 to 2023.
Collection of Essays

Alschner, Wolfgang and Guillaume François Larouche, “Policy trends and options for the future relationship between international tax and investment law”, in Robert Danon, Sebastian Wuschka and Andreas R. Ziegler, eds, Tax Issues in International Investment Arbitration (Lausanne: Kluwer Law, forthcoming 2024).

Larouche, Guillaume François and Anne Lise Kjær, “Situated (Legal) Knowledge", in Ramona Coman, David Paternotte, and Frederik Ponjaert, eds, Impact and Social Sciences: A Conceptual Index (forthcoming 2025).

Larouche, Guillaume François, “European Integration and the Rule of Law as a Social Capital”, in Ramona Coman, Nicolas Levrat, and Frederik Ponjaert, eds, GEM DIAMOND Edited Volume, Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism Book Series (Routledge, forthcoming 2025).

Larouche, Guillaume François, "Politique", in Vincent Gautrais, Dictionnaire de la norme: Formaliser l'informel (Lex Eletronica, forthcoming 2024).

Legal Journals

Larouche, Guillaume François, “Capturing the changing meaning of norms when they are challenged: a proposed turn to practice” [forthcoming].

Larouche, Guillaume François, “International Economic Law and Peremptory Norms. The Norm Against Corruption, a Manifestation of a (Quasi) Jus Cogens?” [forthcoming].

Larouche, Guillaume François, “Language and legal discourse at the confluence of international arbitration and the domestic judiciary” [forthcoming].

Academic Conferences

Alschner, Wolfgang & Guillaume François Larouche. 2024. "Au-delà de l’investissement. Une plongée dans les objectifs cachés des traités internationaux d’investissement" presented at the Colloque Le droit du commerce durable, responsable et inclusif, Faculté de droit, Université d'Ottawa, 27 October 2024.

Larouche, Guillaume François. 2023. “L’intégration européenne et l’État de droit comme capital social : Les juristes européens et la proposition européenne d’un Tribunal multilatéral des investissements”, presented at the 3rd Colloque interdisciplinaire d’études internationales, École supérieure d’études internationales, Université Laval, Québec City, 17 November 2023.

Larouche, Guillaume François. 2023. “European Integration and the Rule of Law as Social Capital: The European Proposal for a Multilateral Investment Court”, presented at the Beyond European legal Integration Workshop, University of Oslo, 9 November 2023.

Larouche, Guillaume François. 2023. “European Lawyers and the Making of the Proposed Multilateral Investment Court: A Legal Ethnography”, presented at the PhD Symposium of the European Union in International Affairs Conference, Brussels, 3 May 2023 [unpublished].

Larouche, Guillaume François. 2023. “International Courts (Trans)formations: The Role of European Lawyers in the ‘Fabrique’ of the International Criminal Court and the Proposed Multilateral Investment Court”, presented at the First GEM DIAMOND Annual Conference, Brussels, 14 March 2023 [unpublished].

Larouche, Guillaume François, “International Economic Law and Peremptory Norms. The Norm Against Corruption, a Manifestation of a (Quasi) Jus Cogens?”, presented at the Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference (EPLC) 2022 (Edinburgh), 16 June 2022 [unpublished].

Larouche, Guillaume François, “Adapting the WTO Legal Paradigm on ‘Like’ Products to Include Environmental Considerations: Towards a Green World Trade Organization”, presented at the 15th Annual McGill Law Graduate Conference (Montréal), 5 May 2022 [unpublished].