Updated on 2026/09/12

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GILLOT-ASSAYAG, Laure
 
Affiliation
Faculty of International Research and Education, School of International Liberal Studies
Job title
Assistant Professor(non-tenure-track)

Research Experience

  • 2026.07
    -
    2026.08

    Fondation maison des sciences de l'homme   Postdoctoral funding

  • 2026.01
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    2026.06

    Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Germany)   Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities   Democratic Vistas, Postdoctoral scholar

  • 2025.06
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    2025.12

    Keio University   Faculty of Law   JSPS-CNRS postdoctoral scholar

  • 2024.06
    -
    2025.06

    Academia Sinica   Visiting researcher

  • 2023.09
    -
    2023.12

    McGill University   Law Department   Visiting doctoral scholar

  • 2022.07
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    2022.08

    Yonsei University   Social Sciences   Visiting doctoral scholar

  • 2022.02
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    2022.05

    Berkeley University   Center for the study of law and society   Fulbright Scholar

  • 2016.05
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    2016.06

    Columbia University   Department of Philosophy   Alliance Scholar

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Education Background

  • 2018.09
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    2025.06

    EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales)   Center for the Study of Politics - Research and Analysis (CESPRA)  

  • 2020
    -
    2021

    University of Nantes   Master in Law  

  • 2016
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    2018

    Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS)   Master in Transnational Studies  

  • 1994
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    2018

    Sciences Po Paris   Master in History  

  • 2015
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    2017

    Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne   Master in Philosophy  

  • 2011
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    2014

    Lycée Henri IV (Paris)   Preparatory class for grandes écoles  

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Research Areas

  • Public law / History of Europe and America / Politics / Legal theory and history / History of thought / Philosophy and ethics

Research Interests

  • democratic theory, political philosophy, compromise, French philosophy; political ethics; parliamentary studies, global constitutionalism; intellectual history and politics (France-EU-US); democratic education; interdisciplinarity

Awards

  • French Association of Women in Academia

    2022  

  • University Prize for the best MA

    2018  

  • French Academic Palms of Merit

    2018  

  • Prize of Excellence Paul Ricoeur

    Fonds Ricoeur  

Media Coverage

  • “Laure Gillot-Assayag, Perspektiven der Demokratie”

    Internet

    Author: Myself  

    Goethe Universität Frankfurt newspape  

    2026

  • "Where did France’s culture of political compromise go, and is it coming back?”

    Internet

    Author: Myself  

    RFI  

    2025

  • "Compromise in French Politics, Interview of Laure Gillot-Assayag"

    TV or radio program

    Author: Myself  

    RFI  

    2025

  • “L’éthique du compromis, selon Paul Ricoeur”

    TV or radio program

    France Culture  

    2025

  • "Interview of Laure Gillot-Assayag, “L’éthique du compromis est essentielle à la démocratie”

    Newspaper, magazine

    Author: Myself  

    Réforme  

    2025

  • “Interview of Laure Gillot-Assayag. Le compromis n’est pas aujourd’hui considéré comme une vertu politique”

    Newspaper, magazine

    Philosophie Magazine  

    2025

  • “Sans compromis, la démocratie n’est pas seulement bloquée, elle perd son sens véritable”

    Newspaper, magazine

    Author: Myself  

    Le Monde  

    2025

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Papers

  • The Ethics of Compromise in Democracy: A Ricœurian Perspective

    Democratic Theory   13 ( 3 ) 374 - 391  2026.07  [Refereed]

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    This paper develops an ethics of compromise inspired by Paul Ricœur’s philosophy. Although Ricœur explicitly addressed compromise only once (1991), his broader work provides conceptual resources for rethinking it beyond moral failure or political opportunism. Rather than offering a textual exegesis, the paper mobilizes Ricœurian concepts to establish compromise as a fundamental dimension of intersubjectivity and democracy. It advances three arguments: first, ethics and politics should be understood through their intersection rather than separation or hierarchy; second, compromise is redefined as the “voluntary and innovative intersection of conflicting domains,” rather than a mere exchange of concessions; third, compromise rests on the ethical disposition of the capable yet fallible subject, committed to deliberation and the common good despite enduring disagreement.

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  • The inventiveness of compromise: Paul Ricoeur and the productive power of metaphor

    Laure Gillot-Assayag

    Continental Philosophy Review   59 ( 2 ) 291 - 310  2026.05  [Refereed]

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  • The Excellence Award at the Fonds Ricœur’s Summer Workshop 2025 – "The Dialectic between Recognition and Compromise: A Foundation for Contemporary Political Ethics?"

    Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies   16 ( 2 ) 153 - 170  2026.02  [Refereed]

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    This article aims to show that P. Ricœur’s thought offers a robust theoretical framework for conceptualizing the dialectic between recognition and compromise, serving as foundation for a political ethics suited to the challenges of pluralism in contemporary societies. Compromise serves to mitigate conflicts arising from demands for recognition and to provide practical avenues for solving such disputes, while the imperative of recognition prevents compromise from degenerating into a mere strategic negotiation and enriches the practical imagination necessary for collective action. A Ricoeurian approach to politics enables to sketch out a political ethics grounded both on a “will-to-live-together” and “just institutions,” one that acknowledges the inevitability of conflict but sustains the possibility of shared political existence.

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  • Prix d'excellence de l’édition 2025 des Ateliers d’été du Fonds Ricœur – La dialectique entre reconnaissance et compromis : le fondement d'une éthique politique contemporaine

    Laure Gillot-Assayag

    Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies   16 ( 2 ) 134 - 152  2026.02  [Refereed]

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    Cet article vise à démontrer que la pensée de P. Ricœur fournit un cadre théorique précieux pour conceptualiser la dialectique entre reconnaissance et compromis comme fondement d’une éthique politique adaptée aux défis du pluralisme dans les sociétés contemporaines. Le compromis peut apaiser les conflits soulevés par les demandes de reconnaissance et fournir des pistes pratiques pour traiter ces différends, tandis que l’impératif de reconnaissance empêche le compromis de dégénérer en simple négociation stratégique et enrichit l’imagination pratique par l’action collective. Une approche ricœurienne de la politique permet d’esquisser une éthique politique fondée sur un « vouloir-vivre-ensemble » et des « institutions justes », qui reconnaît l’inévitabilité du conflit mais maintient la possibilité d’une existence politique commune.

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  • Margalit & Limits to Political Compromise

    Philosophy Now    2026  [Refereed]

  • Vigilance and destituent power in contemporary democracies

    Global Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press)    2026  [Refereed]

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  • L’espace public, lieu de vigilance

    Revue internationale de philosophie   Vol. 314 ( 4 ) 97 - 116  2025.12  [Refereed]

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    Cet article examine la notion de vigilance, évoquée par Paul Ricœur, et sa pertinence pour penser l’intervention philosophique dans l’espace public contemporain. Face à la fragilisation des fondements démocratiques, nous soutenons qu’une approche ricœurienne de la vigilance offre une conception équilibrée du rôle de la philosophie dans l’espace public. Cette posture évite tant l’écueil de l’arrogance dogmatique, qui prétend détenir des vérités absolues, que celui d’une méfiance critique systématique qui rend impossible toute construction intellectuelle. La vigilance est interrogée en tant qu’exercice philosophique, comme réponse à la fragilité constitutive des institutions, et comme forme de sagesse pratique en situation. La vigilance éthique ricœurienne apparaît ainsi comme une démarche philosophique qui reconnaît la nécessité des médiations institutionnelles tout en maintenant à leur égard une distance critique. Elle offre une ressource précieuse pour repenser le rôle de la philosophie dans un contexte démocratique fragilisé.

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  • A Ricœurian approach to education: articulating the ‘will-to-live-together’ and ‘conflictual consensus’ in democratic societies

    Laure Gillot-Assayag

    Journal of Philosophy of Education (Oxford University Press)   60 ( 3 ) 547 - 571  2025.08  [Refereed]

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    This article explores the potential of Paul Ricœur’s political philosophy for conceptualizing education in democratic societies. While Ricœur did not develop a systematic philosophy of education, his work offers rich resources for reimagining education’s role in fostering democratic citizenship. By integrating Ricœur’s scattered reflections on education into his broader political philosophy, this article proposes an educational approach centred on cultivating the ‘will-to-live-together’ through ‘conflictual consensus’. It argues that these concepts provide a compelling framework for managing societal pluralism and developing democratic competencies. The article concludes by offering practical suggestions to implement this educational vision.

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  • Lectures on Imagination By Paul Ricoeur

    Laure Gillot-Assayag

    International Journal of Philosophical Studies   32 ( 4 ) 499 - 503  2024.08  [Refereed]

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  • Raymond Aron and the 'Sense of Compromise' in Democracy

    Laure Gillot-Assayag

    Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy   31 ( 1/2 ) 210 - 225  2024.04  [Refereed]

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    This article seeks to explore the relevance of compromise in Raymond Aron’s essays. The concept of compromise has never been subjected to critical scrutiny in his works. The paper offers a new interpretation of R. Aron’s democratic theory by arguing that “the sense of compromise”, mainly set out in Democracy and Totalitarianism, is a foundational and pivotal concept to highlight the specifics of his liberal thought and his understanding of democratic pluralism.It aims to provide a critical analysis, presenting a focused exploration of three types of compromise, broken down into three areas (the political-pluralist compromise; the economic compromise; the foreign policy compromise). In each of these cases, key qualities and limitations of compromise solutions for deadlocked controversies are outlined.The article argues that, for R. Aron, economic compromise is the easiest to achieve.The paper further discusses possible criteria that can help to discriminate moral from immoral compromises. It concludes that “the sense of compromise” is inseparable from any serious attempt to think afresh R. Aron’s democratic theory.

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  • La santé en prison : les vulnérabilités des prisonniers à la lumière du droit

    Revue française d'éthique appliquée   N° 12 ( 1 ) 155 - 170  2022.06  [Refereed]

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    À partir d’une analyse de l’évolution de la jurisprudence, l’article étudie la façon dont des protections spécifiques ont été progressivement bâties pour protéger les personnes en détention, notamment les plus vulnérables d’entre elles, ainsi que les protections qui ont été intégrées par les États, en particulier la France, et les obligations de protection dont les États, ou certains d’entre eux, essaient de s’exempter. L’article explore également la tension éthique et juridique entre privation de liberté et risque de privation de dignité, et sous quelles conditions le système carcéral s’adapte aux vulnérabilités, plurielles, des prisonniers.

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  • Le compromis selon Paul Ricœur

    Laure Assayag-Gillot

    Négociations   29 ( 1 ) 103 - 120  2018.03  [Refereed]

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    Cet article soutient que le compromis se trouve au cœur du projet philosophique de Paul Ricœur en dépit de la fragmentation apparente de son œuvre. Ricœur conceptualise le compromis en le définissant comme une « mise en intersection d’ordres de grandeur différents », et le distingue de la compromission, entachée de négativité. Indispensable pour construire une vie en commun dans une société où le conflit est inhérent, le compromis témoigne pour Ricœur d’une anthropologie de l’homme qui est aussi une « ontologie de l’agir » ; le compromis atteste des potentialités de l’homme autant qu’il renvoie à la précarité de la parole donnée, susceptible d’être trahie à chaque instant.

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  • Penser la confiance avec Paul Ricoeur

    Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies   7 ( 2 ) 164 - 186  2017.02  [Refereed]

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    This article proposes to retrace the path of trust that Paul Ricœur has drawn across his works. If the concept of trust is never themed as such, nevertheless it unfolds in subtle ways in fields as diverse as ethics, morality, politics, and religion. We will argue that trust is a solid but fragile foundation for Ricœur’s recognition theory. Rooted in man’s structural disproportion, trust is a perpetual tension between the finitude of existence and the infinitude of mutual recognition, between the ability and fallibility of the human being -it is thus a continuous search, always disappointing but always renewed, of a mediation between the self and the other, the hope of happiness and the reality of evil. The analysis of various forms of trust, including interpersonal and institutional forms, will then be coupled with a study of trust in practical terms, based on Ricœur’s approach to healthcare relationships, or the perception of foreigners.

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  • Art militant, art engagé, art de propagande Un même combat ?

       2016  [Refereed]

  • The Vertical and Horizontal Axes of Democracy

    Book and Ideas    2004  [Refereed]

  • Un cadre européen de référence pour la philosophie ? Une comparaison France-Allemagne

    Diotime (UNESCO)    1998  [Refereed]

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Books and Other Publications

  • Federal Theories and Practices

    ( Part: Edit)

    2026 ISBN: 9783032199591

  • The Politics of Decency and Non-Humiliation

    ( Part: Edit)

    ISBN: 9783032313027

Presentations

  • Rethinking Democratic Compromise

     [Invited]

    Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) 

    Presentation date: 2026.10

  • Congressional and Parliamentary Ethics: A Comparison between the European Parliament and the US Congress

    5th Global Parliamentary Conference, University of Luxembourg (European Parliament) 

    Presentation date: 2026.06

  • Understanding Compromise Through Paul Ricoeur

     [Invited]

    Institute of International relations and political science, University of Vilnius (Lithuania) 

    Presentation date: 2026.06

  • Parliamentary Ethics: Normative and Empirical Compaisons between the UE institutions and US Congress

    Goethe Universität Frankfurt Colloquium (Germany) 

    Presentation date: 2026.06

  • L'éthique du compromis en démocratie

    Le Monde 

    Presentation date: 2026.06

  • Rethinking the Social Contract : a Ricoeurian Perspective

     [Invited]

    Social Contract Research Network (SCRN), Monash University 

    Presentation date: 2026.04

  • What is an Ethics of Compromise?

    Waseda Philosophy Workshop Group (Japan) 

    Presentation date: 2025.09

  • Correcting Mouffe’s agonism by an ethics of compromise ?

    International Association of Women Philosophers, University of Tokyo (Japan) 

    Presentation date: 2025.08

  • Reconnaissance et compromis : les fondements d’une éthique politique contemporaine ?

    Summer Conference, Fonds Ricoeur (France) 

    Presentation date: 2025.06

  • Compromise and Imagination in Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy

    International Conference on Paul Ricoeur, Soochoow University (Taiwan) 

    Presentation date: 2025.05

  • La France, une culture de l’anti-compromis ?

    Université Catholique de Lille (France) 

    Presentation date: 2025.04

  • The Ethics of Compromise in Democracy

     [Invited]

    World Congress of Political Science (IPSA) 

    Presentation date: 2025

  • Une éducation à la démocratie ?

    Conference on moral and civic education of citizens, INSPE /Sorbonne University (France) 

    Presentation date: 2024.05

  • Paul Ricoeur and Compromise

    3rd Braga conference on ethics and political philosophy, University of Braga (Portugal) 

    Presentation date: 2018.09

  • Angela Davis en poésie ? Un imaginaire genré

    Portraits and autoportraits of women in post-68 arts; University of Clermont-Ferrand (France) 

    Presentation date: 2018.05

  • Les enjeux politiques des transferts culturels : les ambiguïtés de la réception de la pensée féministe d’Angela Davis à Paris (1970-1980)

    Feminist theories, ENS-Lyon (France) 

    Presentation date: 2018.04

  • Religion and discrimination: A Paradox in Paul Ricœur’s thought

    Maison française d'oxford (UK) 

    Presentation date: 2017.09

  • A Theory of Destituent Power? Perspectives from Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy

    Annual Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference, Fordham University (U.S.A.) 

    Presentation date: 2009.11

  • Paul Ricoeur et Emmanuel Mounier : les prémisses d’une théorie du compromis ?

    International conference Emmanuel Mounier, UCL Louvain (Belgium) 

    Presentation date: 1981.12

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Other

  • U.S. Congress (Washington D.C.), Legislative Fellow

    2021.09
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    2021.12

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    Fully funded scholarship as a legislative fellow

  • Daniel Sabatier Prize

    2019
     
     

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    "The rising stars of the cinema industry": Prize for the best screenplay awarded by film professionals

  • National Center for Civil and Human Rights

    2016.07
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    2016.08

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    John Lewis Fellow, funded by Andrew Mellon Foundation

  • OFAJ Scholarship

    2016.05
     
     

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    Scholarship by the French-Germany office for youth (fieldwork on the didactics of philosophy in German primary schools)

 

Syllabus

Teaching Experience

  • Humanities

    Sciences Po  

    2019.09
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    2023.06
     

  • Methodologies in Humanities and Social Sciences

    EHESS  

    2020.10
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    2021.06