Parliamentary Chair

Since October 2011, the aim of the Chair has been to contribute to the knowledge, study and operation of democracy and parliamentarianism in the national, European and international decision-making process. It contributes to research activities in the fields of public policy, political sociology, parliamentary and constitutional law, European legislative studies and comparative politics. Her current projects focus on Parliaments and comparative constitutional innovations; Parliament, deliberative functions, referendum and petition practices; Parliaments and public policy and scientific evaluation offices; Parliament and economic governance at national and European level; Europeanisation and internationalisation of norms for organising democracy; Values studies and elections. In September 2020, it created the Master in Legislative Studies, a bilingual programme (English/French). Since October 2021, in partnership with the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie, which brings together more than 90 assemblies around the world, the Chair has been carrying out training and research projects in the following areas: digital democracy, digitisation of the law, parliamentary diplomacy, parliamentary ethics and deontology, comparative legislation, multi-level parliamentarisms and expertise for the parliaments of Albania, Cambodia, Lebanon, Moldova, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and the European Parliament. The Chair develops doctoral and post-doctoral research and produces academic publications (Collection études parlementaires - éditions Larcier- Bruylant) and organises two to three academic Parliamentary Studies Schools a year, which bring together academics and practitioners from all continents, and has established academic partnerships throughout the world.