This seminar is organized within the framework of the doctoral program Mediterranean Studies of the Institute Societies in Mutations in the Mediterranean (SoMuM). Aimed at doctoral students of Aix-Marseille University (all disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences), the disciplinary seminar of SoMuM aims to provide a theoretical and methodological synthesis of each discipline in the field of Mediterranean Studies: state of knowledge and perspectives.
What do we learn from looking at the Mediterranean through the prism of a discipline? The SoMuM seminar will be an opportunity to present the major authors, schools of thought and thematic issues of each discipline of the Institute. Two first editions have already taken place in 2021, led by geographers and then historians. The present edition is dedicated to Legal Sciences.
Legal sciences, and more precisely public international law, apprehend the Mediterranean as a multi-faceted space: a maritime space in movement, a space where sovereignties meet or even clash, a space of cooperation around common and global issues, a space of exchanges and communications of all kinds.
Coordinator : Pascale Ricard Pascale Ricard is a CNRS research fellow in public international law at the Centre d'études et de recherches en Droit international, comparé et européen (DICE) of Aix-Marseille University. She has published a book entitled La conservation de la biodiversité dans les espaces maritimes internationaux : un défi pour le droit international. Her research focuses on International Law of the Sea and Environmental Law. She teaches Public International Law at the Universities of Aix-Marseille and Lyon 3.
Session 1: The Mediterranean as a fragmented maritime space
March 17, 2022, 1-4pm
(Duby Room, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence)
Videoconference: https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/83722202739?pwd=WWJ6M0haOHJudUlyNUVpbHUxR3Rhdz09
This doctoral seminar will first discuss how international law deals with the Mediterranean issue, by studying the Mediterranean as a unique maritime space, a semi-enclosed sea that obeys a legal regime defined by the States surrounding it in the framework of various international conventions. The establishment of maritime borders between States, but also towards the open sea, has not been completed in this space and this "territorial" dimension of the Mediterranean constitutes a current and complex issue for international lawyers.
Speaker
Pascale Ricard (DICE) will present the objectives and methodology of the ZOMAD project in which she is participating, led by Professor Alina Miron, which consists of studying the practice of States within disputed maritime areas in order to deduce, potentially, the existence of a legal regime relating to activities carried out in these areas.
Session 2: The Mediterranean as a space of cooperation around common issues
March 24, 2022, 2-5pm
(Duby Room, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence)
Videoconference: https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/85950600138?pwd=aVU2ZDlhMms0NzdVQ3g2MVp5b2FFdz09
The Mediterranean Sea will then be presented as a space of cooperation between riparian States, which must necessarily join forces for the management and conservation of resources or for the organization of maritime activities. This international and regional governance of the Mediterranean is not unrelated to the "territorialization" mentioned earlier, since it tends to implement a real "planning" of the maritime space.
Speaker
Wissem Seddik is a doctoral student at the Center for Studies and Research in International, Comparative and European Law (DICE). His thesis, under the direction of Professor Marie-Pierre Lanfranchi, focuses on maritime spatial planning in the Mediterranean.
Session 3: The Mediterranean as a space of human movement and circulation
March 31, 2022, 10am-1pm
(Duby Room, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence)
Videoconference: https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/89510237023?pwd=WWlTVGZjd1c2aVlORnM4OVp6TldoUT09
Finally, the Mediterranean will be considered as a space in movement, through the issue of migration, which remains sadly at the center of current events and concerns of international lawyers.
Speaker
Delphine Perrin is a Research Fellow at the IRD, attached to the LPED, Aix-Marseille University. Her work as a jurist and political scientist focuses on the legal and political dynamics of migration, mobility, asylum and nationality in Mediterranean and Sahelian Africa.
Session 4. Assessment of the transversal disciplinary seminar
April 7, 2022, 11am-12pm
Videoconference: https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/83542685318?pwd=TVkvNlNrZUJ5djFDNTBPaXpIOFdXQT09
This debriefing session will be facilitated by Pascale Ricard (DICE).