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Jonathan Miaz serves as Assistant Professor with Conditional Pre-Tenure (PTC) in Political Sociology at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP), Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, appointed August 1, 2024. He is an active member of the Faculty's Center for Research on Political Action and co-founded the Swiss Network for Law and Society and Law & Society Initiative (IDES).
His doctoral training spans the Universities of Lausanne and Strasbourg (France), with prior academic appointments at:
- Sciences Po Strasbourg
- University of Neuchâtel
- University of Chicago
- American Bar Foundation (Chicago)
- Sciences Po Paris
- Center for Comparative, European and International Law
- Institute of Social Sciences (ISS) at UNIL
- Institute of Political Studies (IEP) at UNIL
Miaz's research investigates law-society dynamics through:
- Socio-political uses of law in public administration
- Street-level bureaucratic decision-making processes
- Judicialization of asylum and migration policies
- Implementation of human rights treaties (Istanbul Convention, Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities)
- Legal mobilizations by social movements
- Strategic litigation and international court controversies
His doctoral work combined socio-historical and ethnographic analysis of Swiss asylum policy, with current/future research examining administrative detention practices and societal constructions of individual rights.
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Miaz advances interdisciplinary collaboration through the Center for Research on Political Action and his leadership in establishing the Swiss Network for Law and Society and IDES, which serve as primary hubs for law-society research at UNIL.
