The richness and excellence of research in law and political science are valued and disseminated in various ways, starting with the very many scientific publications that cover all the disciplinary fields of law. The use of open archives with HAL AMU, the publication on dedicated websites of specialized journals or in open access diversify today the modes of diffusion and offer a better visibility to the research.
Finally, a special place is given to young research in law and political science with the Doctoral Students' Day co-organized since 2018 by the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Aix-Marseille and the Doctoral School "Legal and Political Sciences" (ED 67) with the support of the Research Federation "Rights, Powers and Societies" (FED 4280). Each year, doctoral students cross their views and analyses on a transverse subject such as "Changes in justice", "Rethinking democracy and its forms of expression", "Law and social innovation", by taking part in the difficult exercise of a speaker at a symposium. The publication of the proceedings in the eponymous collection of the FED at PUAM ensures the dissemination and promotion of these works.
The distinctions and awards received by the teachers-researchers and in particular the young researchers of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Aix-Marseille are also noteworthy.
The expertise and contribution to scientific popularisation also allow for active participation in the major debates in society and the influence of legal research in the academic circle and beyond, towards the general public via the media in particular. They are the proof of the dynamism of a living research, anchored in its time where the teachers-researchers and researchers take part in the diffusion of knowledge and are actors of the reflexions around the great subjects which cross the society and question the law naturally.
Honours and Awards
Recent distinctions and awards include
- L’Oscar for corporate law and stock exchange law awarded in 2020 to Nicolas IDA of the Centre de droit économique (CDE) for his thesis on "Evidence before the Autorité des marchés financiers
- The special mention of the jury of the ENM 2020 research prize for Laura Pignatel's thesis from the Laboratoire de droit privé et de science criminelles (LDPSC) on "The emergence of a neuro-law. Contribution to the study of the relationship between neuroscience and law" - Listen to theinterview of the PhD student on Youtube.
- The Prize from the Observatoire des retraites obtained by Jessica Attali-Colas from the Centre de droit social (CDS) for her thesis "La sécurisation des pensions retraites" (2019).
Expertise and contribution to scientific popularization
The teachers-researchers and researchers of the Research Units of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Aix-Marseille are indeed more and more frequently solicited to bring their expertise, to analyze and comment on the great legal and societal questions or to participate in the scientific popularization for the benefit of the non-specialists of the law as well as the general public.
The examples are numerous and concern fields as varied as the relationship between justice and artificial intelligence (Frédéric Rouvière, Director of the LTD); the links between quality of work and the construction of the ecological transition (Alexis Bugada, Director of the CDS); tourism (Emeline HATT of the LIEU);adaptation to climate change (Marie-Laure LAMBERT, Deputy Director of the LIEU) or even more recently with the televised interview of Professor Jean-Baptiste PERRIER of the LDSPC on the issues raised during the visit of the Minister of the Interior to Marseille.
Finally, and this is a notable characteristic of these last years, the laboratories are actors of the diffusion of the research which are led there and contribute to develop them near the greatest number:
- by creating Youtube Channels like UMR DICE(Access the UMR YouTube channel),
- by broadcasting Videos and Podcasts like the LTD or the CRA),
- by being active on Facebook or Linkedin
- or by launching Platforms aiming at disseminating academic research, like the CDE with the Platform "Competition Forum - Law § Economics" around competition law in English language only.
