Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences) in Politics, Philosophy & Economics (PPE)
ESPOL (European School of Political and Social Sciences), Université Catholique de Lille (France)
Normative political economy; political philosophy; liberalism & neoliberalism; rule-based governance; markets & democracy; private authority; public reason; complexity; polycentricity/federalism; city autonomy; housing rights, place-based rights, and gentrification; social contract theory; intergenerational justice.
Published articles: Google Scholar.
2025–present: Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences), PPE, ESPOL — Université Catholique de Lille.
2023–2025: Postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy, American University of Paris.
2022–2023: Postdoctoral researcher (assistant-docteur), University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
2021–2022: ATER (teaching & research fellow), ENS de Lyon.
2020–2021: Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy (HOPE), Duke University.
PhD in Philosophy (ENS de Lyon), defended 16 September 2022.
Dissertation: Governing by Rules: Neoliberal Political and Legal Thought (Hayek, Lippmann, Buchanan, Posner).
MA (M2) Economics & Humanities (ESH), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2016–2017).
Agrégation de Philosophie (France), 2016.
MA (M2) History of Philosophy, ENS de Lyon (2014–2015).
Le marché contre l’entreprise? Vers une critique libérale de l’ordre conservateur (submitted).
Libre d’opprimer? Le libéralisme classique face aux normes sociales oppressives (revise & resubmit).
La justice sociale requiert-elle l’État? Une critique de l’hypothèse étatiste (revise & resubmit).
Complexity, Governance and Polycentricity (submitted / in revision).
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Goetzmann, M. In Defense of Den-City: Autonomy, Right to the City, and the Failure of Local Democracies (submitted / in revision).
Boissonnet, N., & Colin-Jaeger, N. Against Gerontocracy: Defending Age-Weighted Voting (late-stage drafting).
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Goetzmann, M. PolycentriCities and Fairness: How Much Autonomy Should Cities Be Granted?
Place-Based Rights and the Moral Topography of Gentrification (v2).
Mapping Social Contract Theories: An Overview (v1; for an edited volume).
Competition and Federation: Does freedom of movement and autonomy undermine equality?
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Goetzmann, M. Are people entitled to the market value of their exceptional homes?
Accounting for Past Inequalities: Assessing a fair baseline for dynamic contracting.
Book project (from the PhD dissertation): Governing by Rules: Neoliberal Political and Legal Thought (proofs sent).
Edited volume project: Vulnerabilities: Theory and Applications (with Marie-Claire Willems).
ESPOL (2025–2026): Research Methods & Epistemology in PPE; Economic and Philosophical Liberalism; Introduction to Social & Economic Ethics.
ESPOL (2024–2025): Introduction to Economic and Social Ethics; Economic and Political Liberalism.
Paris 1 (2024–2025): Introduction to PPE (Economics).
University of Lausanne (2024–2025): Defining neoliberalism (Political science).
Assistant Managing Editor, Œconomia: History, Methodology, Philosophy.
Co-editor, special issue on Neoliberalism and Democracy (Consecutio Rerum).
Organizer: Autonomy of Cities: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (AUP, June 2025); Renewing the Social Contract (Dec. 2024).
Reviewer for journals including The Tocqueville Review, Œconomia, European Journal of Law and Economics, Journal for the History of Economic Thought, among others.