Lucien Karpik is a Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Paris and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (CESPRA). He is the author or co-author of several books including French Lawyers (1999) and Valuing the Unique (2010). His writing has been published in numerous academic journals and conference proceedings as well as in Le Monde, Le Debat and Sciences Humaines.