Laure Gillot-Assayag Postdoctoral Fellow Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Januar – September 2026 Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Parliamentary Ethics, or the Varieties of Republicanism in the EU and US« Project outline: This postdoctoral research aims to examine the transatlantic development of normative criteria for parliamentary deontology, using a comparative approach between the EU institutions and the US Congress. The research aims to answer critical questions about ethical norms in politics, identify similarities and differences between the EU and US’ ethics committees, and assess political ethics’ procedures and institutional designs in both contexts. My main hypothesis is that the transatlantic demand for political ethics is a contemporary resurgence of republicanism. Disagreements on parliamentary ethics from political groups reflect differing interpretations of this intellectual tradition – whether as a rule of law, civic virtue, or non-domination. Building on prior research on compromise in partisan environments, this project will combine theoretical and empirical perspectives, linking philosophy, political science, political theory, history and legal studies. (Laure Gillot-Assayag) Research partner: Laure Gillot-Assayag is a fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at the invitation of research focus »Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World«.
Scholarly profile of Laure Gillot-AssayagLaure Gillot-Assayag received her Ph.D. in Political Studies from the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, with a dissertation on the ethics of compromise in democracy (2025). She holds master’s degrees in Political Philosophy (Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne), American History (Sciences Po Paris), Transnational Studies (ENS-Ulm) and International and European law (University of Nantes). She also conducted research stays abroad, including at UC Berkeley (Fulbright Scholar) and at Columbia University (Alliance Scholar). Her work examines democratic norms and political practice in an interdisciplinary and transatlantic perspective, informed by her policy experience in the US Congress and the European Parliament. She was awarded the Excellence Award at the Fonds Ricœur’s Summer Workshop 2025.Website: Selected publications:
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