
Health, education, and disability (SANTeSiH)
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The Santesih team specializes in social science approaches to health and disability issues. In particular, it conducts sociological, socio-historical, and socio-political research linking the body, sport, health, disability, and society. Research area 1: "The social and identity effects of public health policies"; Research area 2: "The determinants and organizational logic of collective mobilization related to health and disability" Label: UR_UM211Main supervisory body: UMPResearch center: Social Sciences – SSOCDoctoral school: Territories, Time, Societies, and DevelopmentHAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE

Montpellier Research Management (MRM)
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MRM is a unique structure in the French landscape of management laboratories, bringing together institutions of different types (universities and Grandes Écoles) across a large regional area. MRM is the largest management laboratory in France in terms of membership, giving it critical mass at both the national and international levels. Its activities cover the major specialties of management sciences (Accounting and Society, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Human Resources Management, Marketing, Strategic Management, Organizations, Information Systems) and three transdisciplinary areas (agri-food management, health management, responsible management and sustainable development). Label: UR_UM210 Primary supervision: UM Secondary supervision: UPVD Research cluster: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Economics and Management HAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE

Montpellier Research Economics (MRE)
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The research topics of the host team correspond to the societal challenges of the I-Site MUSE ("Feed – Care for – Protect"). The unit's research activities are structured around three thematic areas organized around two research issues: Developing regulatory and social standards for a sustainable future: emergence of standards, behaviors, and equity; standards, administrative authorities, and negotiated procedures. Stimulating innovation for a transition to sustainable development: innovative behaviors, risk management, and sustainable finance; regulatory institutions, transitions, and sustainable innovation. Implementing and evaluating responsible public policies: competition policy, innovation, and sustainable development; health policies, social justice, and inequalities. Label: UR_UM209 Main supervisory body: UMP Research center: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Economics and Management HAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE

Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in Didactics, Education, and Training (LIRDEF)
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LIRDEF develops research activities in the fields of education and training around three areas: Education, policies, societies; Knowledge-Practices-Teaching; Work, Training, Professionalism. These activities focus more specifically on teaching and learning processes, the activities of actors in professional contexts, socialization, professionalization, and identity-building processes, as well as "education for," the history of teaching, and the engineering of situations for educational purposes. LIRDEF is currently involved in several nationally and internationally funded research projects. LIRDEF provides support for the ACEF (Analysis and Design in Education and Training, UPVM, UM) Master's program, DDS (Science Teaching, UM, Univ. Lyon 1, ENS Lyon) and the four specializations of the MEEF master's degree (Teaching, Education, and Training Professions, UM), and is a scientific partner for the Center for Studies, Documentation, and Research in the History of Education at the Faculty of Education in Montpellier. Label: UR_UM208 Main supervisory bodies: UM, UPVM Research cluster: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral schools: Information, Structures, Systems; Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Civilizations; Territories, Time, Societies and Development HAL portal: publications by the structure WEBSITE

Laboratory for Innovation, Communication, and Market Research (LICeM)
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The LICeM brings together teachers and researchers who are heavily involved in the field of innovation, particularly in economic law. The unit, composed of lawyers, focuses its research on two areas related to innovation in its relationship to law. The first area aims to identify and understand, given new offerings and behaviors on the market, what legal innovations have been created. The second area aims to analyze the legal framework for innovative objects resulting from digital technologies. The team's research provides an important foundation for the Master's and University Diploma programs it offers in the areas of consumption, distribution, competition, intellectual and digital property, and food. Label: UR_UM213Main supervisory body: UMPResearch center: Social Sciences – SSOCDoctoral school: Law and Political ScienceHAL portal: publications by the unit WEBSITE

Between ethics and laws, who can govern artificial intelligence systems?
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Published on: September 23 , 2022
We all began to realize that the rapid development of AI was really going to...

Private Law Laboratory (LDP)
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The Private Law Laboratory at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Montpellier brings together Professors in a cross-disciplinary approach to private law. Currently, three areas of focus are being pursued in parallel: vulnerable individuals; real estate; and payment. These areas allow members of the Laboratory and external contributors to come together around different research topics and use a cross-disciplinary approach to complement each other's research. Label: UR_UM207 Main supervisory body: UMP Research center: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Law and Political Science HAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE

Edmond Meynial Institute of Legal History (IHD)
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The Institute of Legal History focuses on eight research topics: history of criminal law; history of procedure; history of colonial law; history of commercial law; history of legal and political thought; Roman law; sources of southern law; sources of scholarly law. Label: UR_UM206 Main supervisory body: UMP Research center: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Law and Political Science HAL portal: publications by the organization

Institute of European Human Rights Law (IDEDH)
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The European Institute of Human Rights contributes to the creation, dissemination, and promotion of knowledge in the field of European law and fundamental rights. Its objective is to study how the protection of human rights is structured and developed in Europe, based on both the European Convention on Human Rights and developments in European Union law, including interactions with domestic law. Label: UR_UM205 Main supervisory body: UMP Research center: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Law and Political Science HAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE

Montpellier School of Labor Law (EDSM)
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The general research theme of the EDSM focuses on collective bargaining. Following the fundamental reforms of recent years, the aim is, more specifically, to assess the social innovation brought about by collective bargaining agreements and conventions.It also focuses more specifically on small businesses, attempting to measure the adequacy (or inadequacy) of labor law for small businesses. The central issue of (collective) bargaining in very small businesses remains a common thread.Alongside this general theme, the unit has embarked on a second research theme, focusing on health at work (quality of life at work, social security, CSR). Label: UR_UM204 Main supervisor: UMP Research center: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Law and Political Science HAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE

Montpellier Criminal Law and Forensic Science Team (EDPFM)
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The Montpellier Criminal Law and Forensic Science Team (EDPFM) conducts individual and collective research in three areas: Criminal justice, criminal policy, and criminal procedure: all developments in criminal justice and criminal trials in the 21st century; Forensic medicine, criminalistics, and forensic science: forensic science, and in particular forensic medicine, brings together science-based methods of analysis to aid investigators in their work; age determination, living beings, and thanatology; Criminal liability of companies and decision-makers: criminal law in public and private affairs. Label: UR_UM212 Main supervisory body: UMP Research center: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Law and Political Science HAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE

Montpellier Center for Research and Administrative Studies (CREAM)
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The Montpellier Center for Research and Administrative Studies (CREAM) is a center that brings together Professors in the fields of French and European administrative law at the University of Montpellier. CREAM's areas of research: Area 1 – Public business law: public economic law, regulatory law, public contract law, in their national and European dimensions. Area 2 – Environment and heritage: environmental law, administrative property law, urban planning law, heritage and cultural law. Area 3 – Litigation: administrative litigation law, European Union litigation law. Area 4 – Institutions: civil service law, local government law, administrative institutions, European institutions, constitutional law. Area 5 – Finance/taxation: national, local, and European public finance law, tax law. Label: UR_UM203 Main supervisory body: UMP Research center: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Law and Political Science HAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE

Center for Comparative Constitutional and Political Studies and Research (CERCOP)
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CERCOP is a research team whose work focuses on what has come to be known, since the development of constitutional justice and the sophistication of human rights protection techniques, as "the new constitutional law." The first area is dedicated to the study and analysis of constitutional litigation and its implications for the democratic balance of political regimes. The second area focuses on the study of constitutional law in light of state theory and legal philosophy. The third area is devoted to the epistemology of comparative law and the comparative analysis of constitutional regimes around the world.The fourth focuses on "punitive constitutional law" and constitutional case law on rights and freedoms. Label: UR_UM202 Main supervisor: UMP Research center: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Law and Political Science HAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE

Center for Political and Social Studies: Environment, Health, Territories (CEPEL)
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CEPEL operates in the scientific fields of political science and sociology. The Public Health sector has gradually grown, particularly due to spontaneous requests from hospital practitioners wishing to focus their scientific work on the humanities and social sciences. CEPEL's development is in line with the scientific strategies of its supervisory bodies (UM/CNRS) and is part of the themes specific to the Montpellier site (feeding – caring for – protecting), while retaining its historical expertise in the field of public policy and comparative studies. Label: Joint Research Unit Research UMR) Main supervisory bodies: CNRS, UMP Research pole: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Law and Political Science HAL portal: publications of the structure WEBSITE

Center for Environmental Economics – Montpellier (CEE-M)
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Public economics – Environmental economics – Behavioral economics – Industrial organization – Applied econometrics. The Montpellier Center for Environmental Economics (CEE-M) is a research unit created on January 1, 2018, under the supervision of the University of Montpellier, INRA, CNRS, and Montpellier SupAgro. It is a consortium of economists with around 60 members conducting research on all issues related to environmental preservation and human involvement in the environment. In a multidisciplinary approach, all economic methodologies are used, with an emphasis on experimental and behavioral economics. Label: Joint Research Unit Research UMR) Main supervisory bodies: CNRS, UM, INRAE, Institut AgroPôle de recherche: Sciences Sociales – SSOCDoctoral school: Économie GestionHAL portal: publications by the structure WEBSITE Presentation of the AIRCOV project The AIRCOV project (Impact of Fine Particles on COVID-19: an economic approach) is a research project conducted by the University of Montpellier. Its objective is to assess whether high exposure to fine particulate matter (PM) pollution increases the risk of death or hospitalization related to COVID-19. To do this, the project uses anonymized health data from the National Health Data System (SNDS), covering the period from 2015 to 2021. This data includes deaths, hospitalizations, vaccinations, and COVID-19 testing, analyzed at the municipal level, by age and gender. The research is conducted in a secure environment, in accordance with CNIL requirements. The data is stored for four years, with a possible two-year extension, and then deleted. The individuals concerned have rights over their data (access, rectification, opposition, erasure, limitation) and may contact the data protection officer at the University of Montpellier or refer the matter to the CNIL in the event of a complaint. Collective information note: AIRCOV ProjectDownload

Center for Business Law (CDE)
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Created in 1966, the Center for Business Law offers training and research guided by the motto "Learn to do business." The Center for Business Law's research activities currently focus primarily on contract law, distribution law, intellectual property law, and customary law.The unit collaborates on five master's programs and offers students the opportunity to learn about written and unwritten national, European, and international legal rules in the areas of contracts, taxation, corporate law, property law, and insurance law. Most of these courses are now open to apprenticeships. These training and research activities promote a practical and entrepreneurial approach to law. Label: UR_UM201 Main supervisory body: UMP Research center: Social Sciences – SSOC Doctoral school: Law and Political Science HAL portal: publications by the organization WEBSITE