Jean-Louis Laville - Brief Bio

Jean-Louis Laville initially graduated in economics, before obtaining his PhD in sociology from the Institut d'études politiques in Paris. He also holds an HDR (Habilitation to conduct researches – Paris X). He is a professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM, Paris), head of the Chair of Service Relations and co-director of the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique (LISE UMR 6209), CNAM-CNRS.

He participates in several academic reviews and journals. He is a member of the international scientific board for Sociologia e politiche sociali, Éditions FrancoAngeli (Milan); of the redaction committee of Sociologia del Lavoro; of the orientation committee of Sociologie du travail (France); of the editorial board of Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Kluwer Academic - Plenum Publishers (USA); of the redaction committee of Économie et solidarités, journal of the International Center of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC), Quebec, Canada.

Jean-Louis Laville is also a member of several expert societies. He is for example a member – representing Europe - of the Board of directors of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), and a member of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF), within which he is co-responsible for the Research Committee on "Economic sociology".

Recent publications:
· Dictionnaire de l’autre économie, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2005 (ed., with A.D. Cattani).
· Action publique et économie solidaire, Toulouse, Erès, 2005 (ed., with J.P. Magnen, G.C. de França Filho, A. Médeiros).
· Sociologie des services, Toulouse, Erès, 2005.
· The Third Sector in Europe, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2004 (ed., with A. Evers).
· Sociologie de l’association, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2004 (reed.) (ed., with R. Sainsaulieu).