Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (Ed.) is a Full Professor of Law at Université Côte d’Azur CNRS GREDEG, Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Since the beginning of his career, he has developed the following research themes: international and European intellectual property law, the Europeanization of law, interactions between international and European law, methods of application of law in a global context, and an epistemological approach to circulation phenomena. His new research theme focuses on the antecedent approach to law.