Alain Supiot FBA (born 5 June 1949 in Nantes)[1][2] is a French legal scholar.
[1] Professor tenure (1980), member of the « Institut Universitaire de France » (2001, chair of « Dogmatic Grounds of Law and Social Ties »), Ph.D. honoris causa (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Alain Supiot has successively been Professor at the University of Poitiers and Nantes, France (UMR-CNRS 6028).
He has presided at the National Council for the Development of Human and Social Sciences (whose works have been published at PUF, Quadrige collection, 2001, under the title : « Pour une politique des sciences de l’Homme et de la société »).
His actual research interests focus of the analysis of the dogmatic foundations of social ties.
[3] He is a member of the Global Commission on the Future of Work formed by International Labour Organization [4]