Guillaume François (G.F.) Larouche is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow within the Horizon Europe GEM-DIAMOND project and a SSHRC Nelson Mandela Scholar. He is currently conducting a joint PhD in Law and International Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Université Laval, and Université libre de Bruxelles. He works under the supervision of Professors Mikael Rask Madsen, Jean-Frédéric Morin, and Chloé Brière.

His PhD dissertation explores the EU proposal to reform ISDS from a sociolegal perspective. As such, he is particularly interested in the role of legal professionals in the making of this proposal. Since 2024, he is  attending the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Working Group III on Possible ISDS Reform as a delegate of the Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Governance (iCourts).

G.F. is a member of iCourts, an affiliated PhD Researcher at the Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy (Université Laval), and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for European Studies/Institut d’études européennes (Université libre de Bruxelles).

His research interests focus on arbitration, the legal profession, the concept of the Rule of Law, Critical Legal Studies, and the sociology of law.

He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Ottawa (he received the mention “Excellent” for his master's thesis), a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Université Laval, and an Advanced Certificate in French and European Law from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

He is a member of the Barreau du Québec since January 2020. He practiced law in Montréal from 2020 to 2023.