Alain Loute has a PhD in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven (UCL). He has published La création sociale des normes. De la socio-économie des conventions à la philosophie de l’action de Paul Ricoeur (2008). Recently, he has co-edited the volume Nouvelle critique sociale, Europe-Amérique Latine, Aller-Retour (2011, with Marc Maesschalck). He is conducting his research at the Center for Philosophy of Law (UCL).