Missions

The person recruited as a postdoctoral researcher will be a specialist in the relationship between international criminal justice and cultural heritage in Law and will be part of the ANR JCJC HUMANITIES (A new HUManitarian Agenda for UNESCO: protecting cultural heritage through local communITIES) project, which began on 1 January 2025 and includes eight researchers from France, Great Britain and Belgium.

Activités

The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting field research at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, on the subject of cultural heritage protection.
This qualitative research will include corpus analysis (primary sources produced by the court), archive analysis and interviews. The aim will be to enable a comparison with two other case studies: the protection of cultural heritage by UN humanitarian actors (survey conducted by Mathilde Leloup, the project coordinator) and by the International Court of Justice (ICJ, survey conducted by Ambre Tissot, a doctoral student and member of the ANR team).
The objective will be to coordinate a special issue of a journal on the role of international law in the protection of cultural heritage and, within this issue, to write a joint article (with Mathilde Leloup and Ambre Tissot) on the integration of cultural heritage into humanitarian law, international criminal justice and human rights.
The successful candidate will also organise scientific events around the ANR with Mathilde Leloup.

Compétences

The successful candidate must be an experienced researcher in the field covered by the ANR HUMANITIES. The successful candidate will hold a PhD in Law and will already have postdoctoral experience (preferably in a project focusing on the protection of cultural heritage). One or more internships or consultancy experiences in international organisations (notably the ICC and UNESCO) would be an advantage.

Contexte de travail

The successful candidate will work at CRESPPA (Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris) in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, alongside Mathilde Leloup, the coordinator of ANR JCJC HUMANITIES. They will undertake a two-month research stay (between March and April 2026) in The Hague, Netherlands.

Contraintes et risques

This position involves several trips between Paris and The Hague by train. When the person is in Paris, it will be possible to schedule several days of teleworking per week in addition to the days of on-site work at the CRESPPA laboratory.