Presentation of central services

The Department of Legal and Institutional Affairs provides legal advice, as wel as contract negotiations and agreements. The Directorate offers legal advice in matters of governance, for staff and others; it handles and manages the establishment's pre-litigation and litigation; it ensures the smooth running of the establishment's central councils; and it organises or coordinates the main elections within the EPHE-PSL (central councils, CNU, CNESER, etc.). Finally, the Directorate functions as data protection officer (DPO) at the CNIL, as well as ethics referent and whistleblower referent of the EPHE in coordination with the network of the College of Ethics of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.