Charaudeau Santomauro, Bastien

Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro is a French-Argentinian PhD candidate at Sciences Po Law School, a Fox International Fellow at Yale University, and a Fellow of the French Collaborative Institute on Migrations (ICM). His research articulates an interdisciplinary analysis (legal ethnography, doctrinal analysis and legal theory) of the legal processes of marginalization of migrants at the border. He works in particular on the case of the French-Italian border where he does his fieldwork. He seeks to unveil the legal operations that determine the status of migrants at the border. He examines more specifically how the dynamics of the socio-legal controversy around the border affect the interpretation and the elaboration of migration law, in particular migrants’ legal standing and citizens’ right to provide assistance to foreigners. Bastien is undertaking his research under the supervision of Pr. Jeremy Perelman (as principal supervisor), Pr. Loïc Azoulai and Pr. Julie Saada (as secondary supervisors).

Bastien is part of two collective research projects on the reception of Ukrainian refugees (CORRIREF) and the European Temporary Protection Directive (ARDI2001). He is a founder of the research group “Law, Migrations and Epistemology” created in 2021 and based at Sciences Po.

Bastien is a graduate in Political Philosophy, Law and Migration Studies. He holds a B.A. in Humanities and Social Sciences (Sciences Po, 2013), an M.A. in Political and Legal Philosophy (Sorbonne University, 2015), an M.A. in Economic Law - Global Governance Studies (Sciences Po Law School, 2016) and an advanced M.A. in Interdisciplinary Analysis of the European Integration – Europe and Migrations (Institute for European Studies - University libre de Bruxelles, 2017). At the Sorbonne, he wrote his master’s thesis on normative and democratic challenges in the production of Labour Law through collective bargaining. At the Institute for European Studies, he defended his thesis on the impact of states of exception on migrant rights at the French-Italian border.

In 2018-2019, Bastien Charaudeau Santomauro was a visiting research scholar at Northeastern University School of Law (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.). There, he pursued his research in close contact with the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2021-2022, he was a visiting researcher at Yale (MacMillan Center) and in the fall 2022, he was visiting fellow at Roma Tre’s law department (Italy).

Bastien is part of the Law School’s Migration Clinic since 2019, where he initiated in 2019-2020 a clinical project that aimed to examine the controversial legal basis of migrant detention at the French Italian-Border. He is now a member of the Scientific Council and runs the Migration Clinic.

Teaching

As a lecturer in Law

• Migrant Rights Advocacy: What Can the Law Do? (2022, Sciences Po, Summer School)
• Migration Law: From Theory to Advocacy (2020, 2021, Sciences Po, BA)
• Human Rights Advocacy (2018, Sciences Po, BA)
• Philosophy of Migration Law (2018, Sciences Po, BA)

As a teaching assistant

• Human Rights, Society and Law (2021, Sciences Po, BA) by Jeremy Perelman & Helena Alviar
• Evil in Politics (2017-2018, Sciences Po, BA) by Julie Saada
• Théories juridiques de la globalisation (2016, Sciences Po, MA) by Julie Saada
• Théories du droit international (2016, Sciences Po, BA) by Julie Saada
• Droit et critique du droit (2015, Sciences Po, BA) by Julie Saada

Fields of expertise

• Political and Legal Theory
• European Migration and Asylum Law
• French Immigration Law
• Human Rights Law

Contact: bastien.charaudeau@sciencespo.fr