Born in 1952, Antoine Garapon, Ph.D, is Secretary - General of the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice (IHEJ). Prior to his appointment to the IHEJ, Antoine Garapon served as a juvenile judge for many years.  He is editor for the journal Esprit and has written widely. He wrote with Ioannis Papadopoulos, Juger en Amérique et en France. Culture juridique française et Common Law, with a foreword of Justice Breyer. Its last book (with Jean Lassègue): Justice digitale. Révolution graphique et rupture anthropologique (Presses universitaires de France, 2018). He also manages the collection Bien commun at Michalon Publishing co. and has a weekly programme on France-culture.