Infrastructure Law Lab

The infrastructure law lab promotes applied, engaged, experimental and problem-based research with an interdisciplinary approach but rooted in legal science on environmental, social, urban infrastructures.

In a context of ever-growing awareness of the climate crisis and global policy developments on social and sustainable issues related to policies and investments such as the New Urban European Green New Deal, such a project will inevitably fall within the framework of sustainable innovation for urban mobility.

The infrastructure law lab will investigate legal and governance tools for different kinds of infrastructures : environmental: natural resources shared between the country, peri-urban and urban contexts; social: housing, mobility, healthcare; technological and digital: digital networks, broadband, and wireless networks.

The infrastructure law lab argues that the common stake in infrastructures that allow connectedness and are shared among city inhabitants opens the ground for experimenting with alternative policies and legal tools to ultimately reach a more just and democratic governance of infrastructures’ ecosystems. The infrastructure law lab’s aim is to lead to the creation of urban experimentation in which a collaborative approach could be tested at the infrastructural. The experimentations carried out within the lab will enable us to measure the impact of such policy on economic, social, and environmental aspects.

This kind of analysis is particularly important in a context in which investors are increasingly concerned by the extra-financial impact of their assets, specifically through the inclusion of ESG (environmental, social, governance) in their investment strategy.