First - Call of candidatures (English version)

L'EHESS in Paris (Centre d'Etudes des Normes Juridiques), L'Université de Paris X Nanterre, the Facolta di Giurisprudenza in Florence (Dipartimento di teoria et di storia del Diritto), the Scuoala Superiora Santa Anna in Pisa  and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Estudios de Doctorado en Derecho), are working together to  offer a research and mobility fellowship program entitled European Ph.D. in Comparative History, Theory and Anthropology of European Legal Systems.
These cycles of training concern the history, theory, and anthropology of the European legal tradition.  The objective is, first, to go beyond the current framework, one which has become too narrow and inoperative within national legal cultures; and to avoid the promotion of an idealized and purely academic model of a European common law and to address instead  the contemporary legal issues that have developed at the junction of states, international bureaucracies and markets.  The second objective of this program is place the legal thought, without giving up its rigorous specificity in the perspective of the human and social sciences.  The aim will be to introduce researchers and practitioners not only to the basic comparative methodology but also in to an effective osmosis between the different modes of thoughts which belong to history, anthropology, and theory of  law, in a multi-cultural framework and in multiple languages--English, French, Spanish and Italian.
One of the main goals of this training is to help students understand the legal origins of many familiar concepts which are defining for the most part the identity of an European culture. Categories common to all fields of law, as well as to other fields of knowledge, categories such as ìpeopleî, ìsubjectî, ìthingî, ìbodyî, ìexchangeî, ìvalueî, and ìnatureî have long been at the center of the legal discourse. They find their origins in the law.  Yet while they constitute the framework of traditional legal knowledge, they are subject to contemporary transformations and re-elaboration. Understood in this regard, they offer a formal matrix from which an anthropology of the European culture can be envisioned.

Academic Institutions
1) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre d'Etude des Normes Juridiques,
105 Bd Raspail, 75OO6 Paris. Tel. +33 (0)1-45.49.76.46;
Administration générale de l'établissement : 54 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, tel. +33 (0)1-49.54.25.25; ;
www.ehess.fr/centres/cenj/index.html
2) Université de Paris X Nanterre, Centre de Théorie du Droit,
200 avenue de la République, 92001 Nanterre-cedex, tel. +33 (0)1-40.97.59.86;
www.u-paris10.fr/edsjp
3) Università degli Studi di Firenze, Istitut di Studi Umanistici,
Piazza Indipendenza 9,  50129 Firenze ; tel+39.055.46.27.61; fax + 39. 055. 47.47.56;
www.isu.unifi.it/present.html
4) Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Santa Anna, Centro di Scienze Guiridiche e Sociali,
Via Carducci 40, 56127 Pisa. tel. +39 050. 88. 32. 83/ 373 ; fax: +39 050.88.32.10/5;
csgs.sssup.it
5) Universitat AutÚnoma de Barcelona, Departamento de Derecho Publico i Ciencias Historicojuridicas,
Edifici B, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Espana ; tel. +43. 93 581 1027; fax: +43. 93. 581.20.65;
selene.uab.es/dep-derecho-publico/

Academic Committee
The Academic Committee evaluates candidate applications and selects scholarship recipients. It sets and adapts the pedagogical program to the needs of the students. It meets at least once a year with the students in order to review the progress of their work and to advise them on their research.
The committee includes:
•    Professor Francesco Busnelli, Scuola Superiore Santa Anna, Pisa, Italy                      
 
•    Professor Laurent Mayali, Lloyd M. Robbins Professor of Law, School of Law , University of California,  Berkeley, Director of the Robbins collection in Religious and Civil Law; Directeur d'Etudes a l'EPHE, Vème section Sciences Religieuses
 
•    Professor Aldo Schiavone, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Director of the Istituto di Studi Umanistici, Firenze
 
•    Professor Antonio Serrano Gonzalez, Facoltat de Dret, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Directeur du département d'Histoire du droit  
 
•    Professor Yan Thomas, Directeur d'études à l'EHESS, directeur du centre d'études des normes juridiques
 
•    Professor Michel Troper ('Université de Paris X Nanterre, Directeur du DEA de théorie du droit).

Scholarship Program for the European PhD in comparative history, theory, and anthropology of European Legal Cultures

Objectives  
1) - To award sixteen scholarship of twelve months each, (1200 Euros/month plus 100 Euros/month for travel expenses) for the completion of a doctoral dissertation in three years.
These scholarships will be paid over a period of two years : during year 2004, students shall attend 5 months of courses in Paris in French; during year 2004/2005, students shall attend seven months of courses in Pisa and Florence in Italian (first two trimester), and in Barcelona in Spanish (third trimester)
At the end of the second year, after consulting with the academic committee, selected students may continue their research at the Robbins Collection of the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
At the end of the third year of study (2006), the students will  present and defend their doctoral theses.
2) - Legal provisions: Contract # HPMT-CT-2001-00319, contracted between the European Community and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, states the following:
ìThe European Community and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales have agreed, with the purpose of contributing to the improvement of  the human research potential of the Community, to conduct activity within the framework of the doctoral program entitled ìPhD in Comparative History, Theory and Anthropology of European Legal Culturesî, within the specific program of research and technological development called ìDeveloping the human potential for research and the basis of sociological knowledgeî according the following provisions:
Article 1
1. This object of this contract is the realization of educational  projects by one or more scholarship recipients. The number of month-scholarship recipients is specified in appendix I of the contract.
2. To this end, the contractee makes the commitment to the Community for the faithful execution of the project or projects associated with the field of research described in appendix I, entitled ìPhD. In Comparative History, Theory, and Anthropology of European Legal Culturesî.
3. To this effect the contractee:
            a) selects the scholarship recipient or recipients mentioned in paragraph one of the present article, in function of the number of the month-scholarship recipients and conforming to the obligations of appendix II.  
            b) contracts, with each scholarship recipient, after confirmation of selection by the Commission, an agreement conforming to the obligations of appendix II.î

Admission Requirements
a) General Requirements
- The candidates must be citizens of one of the states of the European Community, or one of the associated states (Bulgaria, Check Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland)
- The candidates must be under age 35 by 1 November 2003, the date of the beginning of their study in the program. However, time spent in mandatory military or civil service will be taken into consideration.
b) Diplomas
- The candidates must have received at least one university degree that would allow them to apply to a doctoral program in law in one of the states of the Community or associated states.
- In addition to this minimum requirement, the academic committee in charge of the admissions to the program will give preference to candidates who have pursued studies in the humanities, social sciences, political sciences or philosophy, etc...., in addition to their legal studies.
c) Knowledge of languages
Since the seminars will be taught in the national languages of the respective institutions, the academic committee will take into account - as a criterion for the evaluation of the applications the knowledge at least passive of two of the three languages (French, Italian, and Spanish).
Languages courses will be organized in each of the countries associated to the Phd.
Applications and Admission procedure
- Applications should be sent to the program's administrative offices: www.cenj.ehess.fr, before October 31stNovember 30th 2003.
- Admission will be granted on the basis of the written application. The academic committee will evaluate and rank the applications following the above mentioned criteria which are also defined in the application form. In some cases the committee may elect to interview a candidate. In this case the candidate's travel expenses to Paris will be partially reimbursed.
- The admitted candidates will complete a written agreement with each of the academic institutions that they will attend (EHESS, University of Florence, School of  Santa Anna at Pisa, Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Organization of the curriculum
- The scholars will attend the research seminars and the classes that will be offered by each of the institutions participating in the doctoral program, according to a calendar fixed by the academic committee (see Program of courses and seminars).
- The payment of the scholarship is subjected to the periodic delivering by the scholars of notices of advancement of their scientific projects.
- At the end of the second academic year, the academic committee will select the students eligible to be awarded a research visit to the Robbins Collection at the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
- In addition to teaching their respective seminars, the faculty will devote a part of their time to the individual and collective advising of the students' work.
- Student who will have chosen to defend their thesis as part of the European Phd in one of the five participating institutions shall write their thesis in one of the official languages of the participating institutions or English. The thesis will be defended in front of a committee that will include the thesis adviser as well as professors representing the different institutions participating in the doctoral program. Wherever the thesis is presented, it shall be recognised by the other participating institutions.
- The thesis will be recognized and validated by each of the participating institutions, regardless of the institution to which it is directly submitted.

Program of courses and seminars
Seminars will be offered during the first two years. These will include lecture courses as well as independent research courses. The purpose of these courses will be, through the in-depth examination of particular issues and theme that they share, to improve students understanding of the principal methodologies which have been developed in the different European legal traditions.
Each year, an interdisciplinary workshop will be offered by members of the program faculty.
First Year: EHESS and University of Paris X (November 2003-march 2004)
A) Three mandatory courses of twelve hours each (two hours per session), for a total of thirty six hours, to be chosen from the following five courses:
•    - Introduction to the Sources of the Learned Traditions of European Law (L. Mayali, EPHE 5th section and Robbins Collection, and Yan Thomas, EHESS, Centre des Normes)
•    - The Practice of Legal Interpretation (O. Cayla, EHESS)
•    - Law and Biotechnology (Marie-Angele Hermitte, CNRS-EHESS)
•    - Legal history of police, administration and management (P. Napoli, l'EHESS)
•    - Law, Science and Technology in Industrial Societies (F, Bellivier, Paris X)
•    - The Body and the Law in Contemporary Societies (M. Iacub, CNRS)
•    - General Theory of Law (Michel Troper, Paris X)
B) Three optional seminars of twelve hours each, to be chosen from the following seminars, for a total of thirty six hours. Each of the three seminars should be chosen from a different discipline:
a) Anthropology
•    Legal Anthropology (A. Mahé, EHESS)
•    Religion and Law in Europe (B. Johansen, EHESS)
•    The Body and the Law in Contemporary Societies (M. Iacub, CNRS)
b) History
•    History of Systems of Belief in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (A. Boureau, EHESS)
•    History of Religion, Law and Medieval Institutions (J. Chiffoleau, EHESS)
•    History of Political and Legal Practices in the Ancien Regime (F. Schaub, EHESS)
c) Philosophy
•    The Construction of the Subject in Contemporary Societies- 18th-20th centuries (M. Gauchet, EHESS)
•    Philosophy of Action (V. Descombes, EHESS)
•    Logic and Ontology of Social Objects (F. Nef, EHESS)
d) Sociology
•    Sociology of Normative Production in Contemporary Organizations (P. Napoli, EHESS)
•    The Idea of Justice and the Idea of Social Reality (A. Cotterau, EHESS)
•    Sociology of Citizenship (D. Schnapper, EHESS)
•    Moral and politic sociology, Luc Boltanski, EHESS
•    Sociologie de l’art et du travail, Pierre-Michel Menger, EHESS
•    Formes de l’action et du jugement : chose publique, choses privées, Laurent Thévenot, EHESS.
Second Year: Florence- Pisa
A)    Three mandatory courses of twelve hours each, for a total of thirty six hours, to be chosen from the following five courses:
•    History of Roman legal Thought (Aldo Schiavone, Università di Firenze)
•    History of Medieval legal Thought (Paolo Grossi, Università di Firenze)
•    History of Modern Legal Thought (Bernardo Sordi, Università di Firenze)
•    History of Modern Legal Systems (Stefano Mannoni, Università di Firenze
•    General Theory of Private Law (Francesco Busnelli, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa)
B)  Three optional seminars of twelve hours each, to be chosen from the following seminars, for a total of thirty six hours. Each of the three seminars should be chosen from a different discipline:
a)      Philosophy
•    Philosophy of Law (Luigi Lombardi Vallauri, Università di Firenze)
•    Political Philosophy (Giuseppe Cambiano, Università di Torino)
b)   History
•    History of Institutions in Antiquity (Paolo Desideri, Università di Firenze)
•    History of Medieval Institutions (Riccardo Fubini, Università di Firenze)
•    History of Modern Institutions  (Corrado Vivanti, Università di Roma)
c)   Comparative Law
•    Anglo-American Legal System (Enzo Varano, Università di Firenze)
•    European Legal System (Anna de Vita, Università di Firenze)
d)   History of Law
•    Elements of Roman Private Law (Dario Mantovani, Università di Pavia)
•    History of  Modern Constitutions (Maurizio Fioravanti, Università di Firenze)

Second year: Barcelona
A)    Two mandatory courses of twelve hours each, for a total of twenty-four hours.
•    History of Modern and Contemporary Spanish Law
•    Legal Culture of the Twentieth Century: the Iberian Experience
B)  One optional seminar of twelve hours (two hours per session):
a)      Comparative Constitutional History
•    Multinational Legal Systems
•    Latin-American Legal Systems
b) Anthropology
•    Judges and Judicial Power
•    The Image of the Jurist in Legal Culture