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Appel à manifestation d’intérêt – Recherche en histoire de la sociologie du droit, fonds André-Jean Arnaud

 

L’Association Droit et Société lance un appel à manifestation d’intérêt à l’attention des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses (doctorant·es, post-doctorant·es), en collaboration avec l’Institut international de sociologie du droit (IISL), pour engager un projet de recherche à partir des archives d’André-Jean Arnaud. Co-fondateur de la revue, André-Jean Arnaud nous a quittés il y a dix ans, en 2015, laissant derrière lui un fonds très riche et heuristique pour étudier l’histoire de la sociologie du droit.

Date limite pour candidater : 31 mai 2025.

Contact : Pierre Guibentif, en qualité de membre du comité de rédaction de Droit et Société et de l’association éponyme, et de président du Research Committee on Sociology of Law (International Sociological Association). pierre.guibentif@iscte-iul.pt


The International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) recently received the donation of the personal archives and the library of André-Jean Arnaud (1936-2015), the first scientific director of the Institute, from 1989 to 1991, who played a decisive role in its setting up and in the starting of its activities. These archives and this library, now duly transferred to Oñati, thanks to the huge efforts of his widow Wanda Capeller, make a material of a considerable volume, including 146 ancient books, 1594 recent books, 9 boxes containing collections of journals, and 35 boxes containing documents (correspondence, documents produced in the course of the activities of the networks maintained by André-Jean Arnaud).

In the view of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL), co-founder of IISL with the Basque Government, it appears to be indispensable to submit this material to a systematic analysis, and to publish the results of this analysis in an appropriate manner (which also should take advantage of the publication formats made possible by digital humanities). As a matter of fact, apart from his engagement in the setting up of the IISL, André-Jean Arnaud played a essential role in the development of French-speaking research networks in the socio-legal field (being, among other involvements, founding member of the French Association Droit et Société), and in the strengthening of the links between these networks and networks belonging to other regions of the world, among them Brazilian networks. So the analysis of the archives of Arnaud’s work should allow a detailed reconstruction of the dynamics which have, from the end of the years 1960 on to the years 2010, given momentum to this development.

Such analysis would offer a valuable contribution to the recent history of the social sciences and humanities, focused on an area of the scientific world were law meets sociology, social theories, history of law, political science and anthropology, which should
make possible a detailed observation of the last advances, as well as of the last drawbacks of interdisciplinarity. And an area where those crossings are strongly conditioned by political debates, among them, in the course of the period here considered, those triggered by the students protests of the 1960, by the end of the Cold War, by globalisation, or else by the experience of changes in the tools of government. This analysis could produce knowledge very useful for those who are interested, today, in the development
of a truly interdisciplinary socio-legal research, paying attention to societal challenges.
Moreover, the carrying out of this research should be organized in a way which would aim at responding to the needs of IISL in terms of cataloguing and making its resources accessible. What is at stake, at this moment, is to join the institutional, intellectual, material, human, and financial resources necessary for this undertaking, which should be a conceived of as a research project in the history of social sciences. At the institutional level, IISL and the Association Droit et Société have a direct interest in the results of this project.

Therefore, they are ready to shape their involvement in the design of the project, which could include other institutional partners, in the terms most favourable for its implementation. At an intellectual level, the project could be embedded in the activities of the RCSL Working Group on Histories of the Sociology of Law. It would be convenient to provide it with a project advisory board, which status should be defined according to the needs of the project, and who should gather personalities informed about the initiatives launched by André-Jean Arnaud, as well as specialists in the history of sociology of law.
At the material level, IISL has at its disposal facilities adequate for the carrying out of the project, as well as for hosting the researcher in charge of the project.

At the level of the human resources, a preliminary analysis of the archives to be analysed allows a very rough estimate of a workload of one or two years full time. The researcher should be fluent in French, since this is the language of an important part of the
documentation. The project could give rise to publications in French and English, without excluding other languages. At the financial level, the Association Droit et Société
is ready for a contribution, which actually would cover only part of the project’s needs. Additional funding should be found, for example within the framework of a competitive call for research projects.

The purpose of the present call for expression of interest is to invite researchers (PhD students, PostDocs, others) interested in the research perspectives here opened to send me by 31 May 2025 a motivation letter, with a short CV attached.

The expressions of interest will be appreciated by a jury composed by Christian Boulanger, Wanda Capeller, Jacques Commaille, Pierre Guibentif, Rafael Muñagorri and José María Sauca Cano. The authors of the expressions of interest considered most adequate to the research work here discussed would participate in the preparation of applications for additional funding, in order for the project to be as beneficial as possible for the progress of their researcher career. In these applications they would appear as principal researcher. The access to the material to be analysed would be warranted to them during this preparatory stage.


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Rédaction de Droit et Société (28 mars 2025). Appel à manifestation d’intérêt – Recherche en histoire de la sociologie du droit, fonds André-Jean Arnaud. Droit & Société. Consulté le 19 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13lby


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