Postdoctoral Researcher (M/F) in Political Science of Law and Justice or Sociology of Law and Justice

25 Feb 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

CNRS

Department

Droit et changement social

Research Field

Physics

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)

Country

France

Application Deadline

16 Mar 2024 - 23:59 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

35

Offer Starting Date

1 Apr 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The research project focuses on analyzing the increasing influence of non-governmental organizations and private foundations on European courts. In particular, the recruited person will investigate disputes initiated by conservative and liberal groups to demonstrate their cognitive and moral influence. He/she will study these issues and how these private interest groups attempt to influence European human rights judicial systems using doctrinal, judicial, political, and financial strategies. Through a socio-legal methodology, he/she will demonstrate how these private interest groups behave. The recruited researcher will contribute to the end of WP2 on legal, socio-legal, and political analyses of actions taken by conservative and liberal NGOs, to the entirety of WP3, which constitutes the empirical study (interviews, work on archives, annual reports, associative legal sources, and data cross-referencing) to highlight the doctrinal, contentious, and political strategies initiated and pursued by these liberal and conservative private interest groups and to WP6 (cross-analyses between WPs).

• Analysis of materials produced by WP2 during the first part of the project: Political effects of litigation and judgments o Comprehensive analysis of the legal, socio-legal, and political influence exerted by private interest groups An internal virtual workshop will be organized to share the results of this analysis and compare them.
• WP3: major contribution to the realization of the Empirical Analysis (21 months) • o Analysis of judicial and financial archives of interest groups (NGOs and private foundations) in New York, London, Budapest, and Strasbourg during Visiting Fellowships at: • In the United States in connection with Columbia University (led by Bernard Harcourt) in New York: interviews and analysis of Ford archives with additional visits to Chicago (McArthur archives) and Washington (3 months) and meeting with American partners; • In the United Kingdom in connection with the London School of Economics (contact: Sarah Trotter): interviews with NGOs and private foundations (4 months) and meeting with British partners; • In Hungary, consultation of the Open Society archives (1 month) in Budapest. • ▪ University of Strasbourg (contact: Anne Fornerod): archives of the ECtHR with access to complaints and interventions by third parties and interviews with private and judicial actors (2 months) • o Analysis of financial statements, financial and annual reports of interest groups • o Analysis of documents on strategic litigation pursued by interest groups • o Analysis of complaints, third-party submissions, and submissions related to the enforcement of judgments rendered by interest groups that are not directly available in judicial databases • o Interviews with private and judicial actors • o General analysis of the empirical investigation • An internal virtual workshop will be organized to share the empirical analysis. At least 3 articles will be co-written for publication in high-impact international journals.
Expected Skills: We are looking for a researcher holding a doctorate in humanities and social sciences (sociology or political science) with several significant experiences in conducting and analyzing semi-structured interviews and working on archives related to the judicial domain. The candidate must demonstrate the ability to develop a sociological and political analysis capable of articulating judicial and historical constraints within the same analytical framework. Proficiency in literature in sociology and political science of law and significant knowledge of judicial strategies will be highly appreciated. Autonomy, oral and relational ease, synthesis skills, and an attraction for teamwork are necessary. Interactions with various stakeholders (NGO and private foundation managers, judges, and lawyers) to be interviewed and the analysis of interviews and archives in English require a perfect command of English (native language or fluent C2), which is the working language of the ANR. Due to planned field studies in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Hungary, the researcher ideally should have one or more previous significant research experiences in one or more of these three countries.

This recruitment is part of the research agreement entitled "European Human Rights Justice under Moral Influences?", "JUST_MORAL", funded by the National Research Agency, obtained under the collaborative ANR.
The researcher will work closely with the ANR members involved in WP2 and the program manager, Gaëtan Cliquennois. Work meetings are regularly held online in English within the consortium. Researchers (including the recruited researcher) must work together with the socio-professional partners involved in the ANR JUST_MORAL.

Requirements

Research Field

Physics

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Languages

FRENCH

Level

Basic

Research Field

Physics

Years of Research Experience

1 - 4

Additional Information
Eligibility criteria

• Ethnographic skills: conducting sensitive interviews, working on archives;
• Ability to co-write high-level international scientific articles, as well as books;
• Language skills: fluent English (scientifically read, spoken, and written) and fluent Hungarian is an advantage.
• Knowledge of the judicial environment, international elites, and NGOs is an advantage.

Soft Skills:
• Ability to work in a team;
• Comfort in oral communication on sensitive subjects.

Additional comments

Attractive postdoctoral job.

Website for additional job details

https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR6297-GAECLI0-002/Default.aspx

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Droit et changement social

Country

France

City

NANTES

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Candidat/Offre/UMR6297-GAECLI0-002/Candidater.aspx

Contact

City

NANTES

Website

https://dcs.univ-nantes.fr/

STATUS: EXPIRED