Five-year contract 2026-2030

Coordination: Isabelle Arnal-Corthier, Serge Dauchy, Bruno Dubois, Victor Simon

The study of judicial and alternative methods of conflict resolution covers a broad chronological and geographical field from a resolutely comparative perspective, drawing on the work of researchers and teacher-researchers in the history of private law, social law, commercial law, criminal law, and international law. This cross-disciplinary theme is also fully in line with the historical trajectory of the Center for Judicial History, whose work has always focused on institutions, actors in the justice system, litigants, and judicial practice studied on the basis of judicial archives. It also incorporates, from a multidisciplinary perspective, research on the relationship between judges and experts, particularly in criminal and social law, while extending the question of expertise to other fields of law and justice, such as business law (arbitration). This theme currently underpins the International Associated Laboratory with the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM (Mexico City).

Coordination: Hugo Beuvant, Louis de Carbonnières, Dante Fedele, Elena Giannozzi

This theme aims to study the emergence and transformation of legal and judicial systems from antiquity to the present day; the transplantation and hybridization of judicial and legal systems; and the dissemination and circulation of norms (codes) and legal literature (doctrine), particularly in Latin America.

Research topics include: the evolution of Roman law from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages (East and West), the birth and development of international law and business law (from the late Middle Ages to modern times), the transplantation of law and judicial institutions in the colonial world (first and second colonial empires), the reception of Napoleonic codes and constitutions in Europe and Latin America in the 19^th century, the construction of international labor law, and the development and evolution of criminal enforcement law.

Coordination: Ariane Amado, Damien Charabidze, Nicolas Derasse, Tanguy Le Marc’hadour

This largely transdisciplinary theme is based in particular on the ANR VioletGinger (2024) project, as well as the ANR F-COMPOST and CNRS REGEN-TERRA projects. It will lead to the extension of existing collaborations with professionals, including the prison administration as part of the Master's in Public Administration (Prison Administrationcourse run by IPAG in Lille), and more broadly with the judicial world. The theme is also a continuation and deepening of the unit's work on vulnerabilities from a historical perspective: research on occupational health, domestic violence from the Ancien Régime to the present day, dementia, prison populations, etc. Finally, it opens up to the relationship between history, law, and death by incorporating work on judicial torture, the death penalty, the history of funeral law, and new funeral practices.