Luis Bourguet

Luis Bourguet is a postdoctoral researcher at LabOnt – Centre for Ontology (University of Turin), where he leads Emergenza, a transdisciplinary project exploring national constitutions as complex adaptive systems (CAS).

His work in constitutional studies investigates emergent sovereignties—new forms of collective authority that determine whether democracies survive, evolve, or collapse—by integrating social ontology, political philosophy, and complexity science. Building on this framework, Emergenza extends the analysis ontologically and temporally through its Transgenerational Democracy Risk Analysis Methodology (TDRAM), which models constitutional endurance across generations by analysing flexibility, adaptability, and inclusion as core drivers of democratic resilience.

Among its expected outcomes, Emergenza introduces the Good Ancestor Ranking (GAR) — a normative framework inspired by intergenerational ethics (Transgenerazionalità by Tiziana Andina 2016)— to assess the long-term foresight capacity of constitutional systems. The GAR measures how present democratic institutions act as “good ancestors,” balancing immediate governance demands with future societal stability and constitutional adaptability.

Complementing this normative layer, the project integrates Cox proportional hazard models, SIS contagion simulations, and Boids agent-based models to simulate institutional evolution and civic behaviour. Through these methods, Bourguet develops open-source tools for anticipatory governance and peacebuilding that translate philosophical insight into civic and policy innovation.

In the legal dimension, his research focuses on the automation of justice and the application of Law Large Language Models (LawLLMs) for constitutional interpretation and judicial reasoning.

Beyond research and development, he has participated in over forty international academic conferences and collaborates with institutions such as the University of Bologna, Mykolas Romeris University, and UNAM. Upcoming stages of Emergenza will take place at the Complexity Science Lab (Hiroshima University, Japan) and IIMAS-UNAM (Mexico), with partnerships expanding toward Europe, the United States and the Global South.

His broader goal is to establish a Turin-based think tank on Constitutional Risk and Complexity, connecting academic research, civic technology, and education to help societies anticipate and adapt to the political transformations of the twenty-first century.