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The Grenoble Faculty of Law is located on the Grenoble university campus, which is considered to be one of the most beautiful in France. The Faculty also has a presence in Valence, which is home to France's largest decentralised university centre.
The Faculty of Law in Grenoble welcomes 4,300 students onto its face-to-face and distance learning programmes and offers 35 courses, including 17 Master's programmes and five university diplomas.
The faculty has 75 teaching and research staff and 36 administrative staff.

Research:

You will join the Centre for International Security and European Cooperation Studies (CESICE) and take part in the laboratory's research activities.

The Faculty encourages synergy between teaching and research activities, ensuring that the courses offered align with the themes of the legal science laboratories: the Centre for Legal Research (CRJ), the Centre for International Security and European Cooperation Studies (CESICE) and the Centre for Studies and Research on Diplomacy, Public Administration and Politics (CERDAP²).

Teaching: You will teach courses in legal history. Your teaching duties will consist of tutorials. You will be required to deliver tutorials in the following subjects:

• History of Institutions after 1789 (L1, first semester),
• History of Institutions before 1789 (L1, second semester),
• History of Human Rights (L3, first semester).

You will teach at the Grenoble (Saint-Martin-d'Hères–Gières) and Valence (Marguerite Soubeyran University Centre) sites. The university will cover travel expenses between the two sites.

Research: You will participate in collective projects with the CESICE Human Rights History team.

Teaching: You will be responsible for preparing and leading tutorials (under the supervision of the course coordinator), assessing students (continuous assessment: grading oral presentations of work prepared by students and written exercises), invigilating exams and participating in exam boards.

Research: You will participate in CESICE research programmes under the supervision of the relevant project managers. You will be attached to the CESICE's ‘History of Human Rights’ department (EA 2420).

You are expected to have the following skills:

Teaching: teaching experience (teaching groups of 30 to 40 students); mastery of the subjects taught (see main duties) and of traditional examination methods (essays, text commentary); experience in assessment (adherence to a marking scheme); enjoyment of teamwork.

Research: ability to conduct documentary research and write scientific articles on the history of law; experience in organising scientific events (symposiums, study days).

An exemption from the PhD requirement may be granted if you are a PhD in your final year and are able to defend by 31 August 2027. Please include the attestation du directeur de thèse with your application.