Judith Bout is an analyst of the Senate debates (« analyste des débats »). She is currently working on a PhD thesis on the occupation of lawyer in China, under the direction of M. Yves Chevrier and Mrs. Isabelle Thireau at the EHESS. She also wrote the biography of the lawyer Zhang Sizhi, published in 2013 by the publisher François Bourin, under the title Les confessions de maître Zhang.