Law and social transformations

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The Law and social transformations department aims to organise and drive research in law and political science in Bordeaux.

The department’s positioning is both thematic and disciplinary.

Thematically speaking, the department is built on the observation that the many and varied social developments currently occurring require us to rethink our legal and political models. As a result, a general scientific approach allowing for better support and understanding of these social transformations needs to be implemented.

On a disciplinary level, the Law and Social Transformations department includes all dimensions of research in law, legal history and political science (public, private, internal, international and European, comparative). Researchers can therefore mobilise the entire disciplinary field in order to capture all the normative manifestations of social transformations and enhance the value of legal and political methods.

Management

  • Olivier Décima

    Director (Professor of private law and criminal sciences - Institute of Criminal Sciences and Justice - ISCJ)

  • Alain Pariente

    Assistant Director (Lecturer in public law - Léon-Duguit Institute)

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Contacts

  • Céline Lemoine

    Administrative & Finance Manager

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  • Leïla Patriarche

    Departmental Administrative Assistant

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  • Clémence Boinot

    Communications & Scientific Outreach Coordinator

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Activities

The Law and social transformations department has two areas of focus:

Area 1: Law and technological transformations

  • Protection of individuals and technological transformations
    Keywords: privacy, personal data, GDPR, health
  • Defending freedoms and technological transformations
    Keywords: fighting cybercrime, judicial and police cooperation, protection of information and data systems, normativity of algorithms, predictive justice.
  • Business adaptation and technological transformations
    Keywords: changes in work and employment, changing to a paper-free trade system, creative law

Area 2: Law and cultural transformations

  • Population mobility, internationalisation of trade
    Keywords: European construction, globalisation, competition between common and civil law legal systems, migration
  • Evolution of litigation and justice 
    Keywords: transformation of crime, new methods of dispute resolution (mediation, settlement)
  • Transformation of public and political action
    Keywords: institutional development, defence, governmental reform, transformation of ideas and political regimes, transformation of the social state
  • Inclusive society
    Keywords: vulnerability, evolution of the family, repression of domestic violence, fight against discrimination, harassment, forms of solidarity

The department is associated with one Major Research Programme (GPR) and 2 Impulsion Research Networks (RRI):

Key figures

  • 8

    units

    7 research units & 1 joint research unit

  • 210

    lecturer-researchers & researchers

  • 330

    doctoral students

Organisation and partners

Departmental units

Ce département est composé de 8 unités en rattachement principal.

Governance

Conseil de département

Il est composé de 28 membres, dont 16 enseignants-chercheurs et chercheurs, 4 personnels BIATSS/ITA, 8 doctorants et post-doctorants et 1 personnalité extérieure.

Comité des directeurs

Il est composé des huit directeurs d’unité et de la direction du département.

Conseil scientifique

  • Hélène Ruiz Fabri, professeure de droit public international, Directrice de l’Institut Max Planck.
  • Xavier Crettiez, professeur de sciences politiques, directeur adjoint de l'IEP de Saint-Germain-en-Laye,
  • Thierry Revet, professeur de droit privé à l’université Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne.
  • Hélène Pauliat, professeure de droit public à l’université de Limoges, membre du Conseil supérieur de la magistrature.

Other units

Clinique du Droit 

Platforms

Doctoral school

Partnerships

  • École nationale de la magistrature
  • Barreau de Bordeaux
  • Cour d’appel de Bordeaux
  • Tribunal administratif ; cour administrative d’appel
  • Chambre régional des comptes
  • CNRS
  • Institut universitaire de France
  • Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Bordeaux
  • Fondation Anthony Mainguené
  • Inserm
  • Sciences Po Bordeaux

Keywords

Law, privacy, personal data, GDPR, health, fight against cybercrime, judicial and police cooperation, protection of information and data systems, normative algorithms, predictive justice, changes in work and employment, changing to a paper-free trade system, creative law, European construction, globalisation, competition between common law and civil law, migration, transformation of crime, new methods of dispute settlement, institutional evolution, defence, governmental reform, transformation of ideas and political regimes, transformation of the social State, vulnerability, evolution of the family, repression of domestic violence, fight against discrimination, harassment, forms of solidarity.