Human rights, Economic Development and Globalization (HEDG)

Project 1: Commerce équitable France

Tutor : Benjamin Michel

Project 2: EDH : Association entreprises pour les droits de l'homme

Tutor : Adèle Bourgin 

Project 3: Les "communs": cadre juridique et contribution aux droits humains

Tutors : Luca d'Ambrosio and Arié Chlomo Lévy

Project 4: MIT : Housing Justice

Tutors : Omar Kamel, Alexia Katsiginis and Jeremy Perelman

The Housing Justice Project involves working with the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. Housing is in the frontline in the response to Covid-19 and has been one of the central social and economic issues for the most marginalised populations well before the outbreak of the pandemic. The focus of the effort is to assist in preparing thematic and country reports to the UN and to conduct longer term research. This will be accomplished by analyzing the diverse legal, social science and planning aspects of housing - ranging from tenure arrangements, public finance, evictions and displacement, land governance mechanisms anchored in private law, as well as public law strategies for securing access to adequate housing. Housing justice will be used as a framework to develop a critical analysis of the reasons that lead to housing insecurity as well as to explore strategies for preventing it. 

Project 5: The Legal and environmental path of a global value chain : coffee

Tutor : Helena Alviar

Project 6: Coalition Eau & Fondation Danielle Mitterand-France Libertés

Tutors : Juliette de Raigniac and Ivana Jimenez Barrios

The project implemented in partnership with Coalition Eau aims to analyze the "impacts of the Covid19 health crisis on the right to water and sanitation for unconnected populations". It is a comparative study of the situations in different French cities (Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux) through research on the decisions of administrative courts, the arguments used by the different parties, action and mobilization of associations, citizens, position of institutions, blockage points, among others. 

Project 7: Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches-TANY

Tutors : Julian Ackermann Aredes and Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet

The project aims to explore and implement existing legal tools to address land grabbing issues occurring in Madagascar, a country where big scale investment projects threaten not only the access to land of millions of individuals, but also the protection of the environment and of biodiversity. This threat risks being aggravated as the government of Madagascar plans to create investment zones (called "emergence zones") to facilitate foreign investment. These "emergence zones" may lead to massive expropriations and evictions in many of the country's regions. In the face of this situation, the project's main goals are (1) to identify, in domestic law and in international law, the legal framework and mechanisms around the issue of land grabbing and (2) to elaborate legal strategies to challenge evictions and land grabbing situations generated by big scale investment projects.

Project 8: Right to Education Initiative

Tutors : Ana Horvatin and Roman Zinigrad