Laurent Pech holds a Doctorate in Law and a Master's degree in Public Law from the Faculty of Law of Aix-en-Provence (France). He graduated in 1996 from the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence. From 1998 to 2003, he taught Public Law and EU Law at the Faculty of Law of Aix-en-Provence. Before joining the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2004, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Canada Research Chair on Globalization, Citizenship and Democracy.