Slim Laghmani was born in Tunis in November 1957. He is a retired professor at Carthage University. He taught international law, legal philosophy, human rights and comparative constitutional law. From 2001 to 2013, he directed the European Union law and Maghreb-Europe relations " research laboratory.
He is the author of Éléments d'histoire de la philosophie du droit, (t. I : La nature, la Révélation et le Droit, Tunis, 1993 ; t. II : La modernité, l'État et le Droit, Tunis, 1999). Together with Ali Mezghani, he published Écrits sur le Droit et la Modernité, (Tunis, 1994, in Arabic). He is also the author of a Histoire du droit des gens published by Pedone (Paris) in 2004, and a booklet entitled Islam, le pensable et le possible published by Editions le Fennec in Casablanca in 2005. Since 1994, with Rafâa Ben Achour, he has co-edited the Rencontres internationales collection published by the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences in Tunis, eight volumes of which have been published by Pedone, and has contributed to the Traité international de droit constitutionnel (three volumes, Paris, Dalloz, Traités Dalloz, 2012).
He was a member of the Committee of Experts within the High Instance for the Realization of the Objectives of the Revolution, Political Reform and Democratic Transition, and Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Public Freedoms. He is President of the Tunisian Association of Constitutional Law and a member of the Scientific Council of the International Academy of Constitutional Law. He was a member of the Commission for Individual Freedoms and Equality.