Bruno Latour is a French anthropologist, sociologist, and a theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies. 
After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris, he is now a Professor and the Vice-President for research at Sciences Po, Paris.

In a series of books, he has been exploring the consequences of science studies on different traditional topics of the social sciences: religion, science, law, politics, etc. 
After a long period of fieldwork on one of the French supreme Courts, he has published a monograph La Fabrique du droit. Une ethnographie du Conseil d'Etat.

The English translation, The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat (Polity Press, Cambridge) has just been published.

Chairs: Fernanda Pirie, CSLS-St Cross College and Judith Scheele, All Souls College