New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Simon Chaptel
Simon Chaptel is a socio-legal researcher contracted by the CNRS as part of the ERC project 'JUST-Penal', which aims to study the moral influences on European penal and prison policies. He is also associated with a national research project (ANR) analysing the strategies of private interest groups (both liberal and conservative) in relation to European justice (ECHR and CJEU). Chaptel’s main area of study is strategic litigation by liberal and conservative international NGOs before the European Court of Human Rights, particularly in the context of third-party intervention proceedings. He seeks to analyse the arguments and methods employed by these private interest groups to influence the interpretation of human rights in line with their respective ideologies.
Simon Chaptel will be a visiting iCourts from 1 - 5 December 2025.