Public engagement

Bringing the law I work on to audiences beyond the university.

Open access

I have used an open channel on Twitch (twitch.tv/lukasrassmasson) to teach and discuss law in the open. I began streaming my courses in September 2020, on my own initiative and at my own expense: my aim was to let Toulouse students follow my teaching while on mobility, and to use the platform's interactivity with large first-year cohorts, alongside guest conferences left available in replay to students, enthusiasts, and practitioners alike. A short presentation of the channel remains online. The channel is not currently active.

I am considering resuming it around a simple idea: making private international law, and international law more broadly, freely accessible, potentially extending to comparative law and French civil law.

Selected recordings

• Cour de cassation, "Penser l'office du juge" cycle (co-directed with S. Perdriolle and S. Poillot-Peruzzetto) — full playlist. I moderated "L'office du juge et les cours suprêmes" (July 2021), and spoke in "L'office du juge et la règle de conflit de lois" (May 2021, slides), "L'office du juge et l'État de droit" (September 2021), and the concluding conference (June 2022, slides).
• "A Province of All Mankind?" Property in Outer Space — Collège de France, seminar of Prof. Samantha Besson, 2025. Video.
• "La petite enfance en droit international privé" — Canal-U (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès), 2022. Video. Slides.
• "Codification of Civil Law in France" — lecture at the Ferenc Mádl Institute (Budapest). Video.
• Round table on the European School of Law of Toulouse and plurilingualism in legal education — for the Observatoire Européen du Plurilinguisme (OEP). Video.
• "La saisine a posteriori des juridictions aux fins de « légitimer » les pratiques illégales" — colloquium of the "Droits et perspectives du droit" research centre, Université de Lille. Video.
• "Les contraintes internationales liées au transport durable" — colloquium "Transports et développement durable", Université Toulouse Capitole, 2018. Video.
• First rentrée solennelle as director of the European School of Law Toulouse — Video.

Media and public debate

• "L'Allemagne de l'Est, une invention ouest-allemande ?" — public round table with Dirk Oschmann (Universität Leipzig) and the Goethe-Institut Toulouse, European School of Law Toulouse, March 2025. Link.
• "L'Union européenne et l'État de droit" — public debate (video-conference), which I moderated, with MEPs Damien Carême, Sylvie Guillaume and Fabienne Keller and Prof. Sylvaine Poillot-Peruzzetto, organised with European civil-society associations and the European School of Law Toulouse, March 2021. Link.
• Round table, "Enseigner la pensée complexe ou à partir d'elle" — Université Populaire Edgar Morin pour la Métamorphose. Video.
• "La parole à…" — interview (with S. Perdriolle and S. Poillot-Peruzzetto) on the "Penser l'office du juge" cycle at the Cour de cassation, Mission de recherche Droit et Justice, November 2020. Link.
• "Le rôle des lobbies au sein de l'UE" — public conference for the Europa Toulouse student association, Université Toulouse Capitole (Amphithéâtre Dauvillier), March 2019. Link.
• Teaching law on Twitch, in the press — Campus Matin, May 2021 (link); Thot Cursus, September 2022 (link).