Julien-Laferrière previously served twice as Mayor of the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, from 2003 to 2008 and from 2014 until 2017, as a member of the Socialist Party, which he left to run for Parliament as the REM nominee in the department's 2nd constituency.

[4] In addition to his committee assignments, Julien-Laferrière is a member of the French delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the parliamentary friendship groups with Suriname, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, among others.

[6] In March 2020, he left LREM after Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced he would push through the bill by executive decree.

[9] Also in 2020, Julien-Laferrière joined Sylvie Guillaume, Mounir Satouri and Frédérique Dumas in visiting several refugee camps in northern Syria that hold individuals displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, including al-Hawl and Roj.

[10] In July 2019, Julien-Laferrière voted in favor of the French ratification of the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada.