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“How is culture financed? Directly by grants or government expenditure? Or indirectly by tax expenditure or exonerations which allow taxpayers – often in partnership with public persons – to fund cultural projects? These questions were the subject of my thesis in which I studied how these different instruments of public accounting had been used to fund cultural heritage, from the old regime to modern day. I covered cultural heritage in the material sense, i.e. what we call in law personal property and real property: objects of art, historical monuments and also immaterial cultural heritage ranging from popular traditions to living performances. In public law, the links between politics and legal aspects are clear, often fluctuating between attraction and repulsion, depending on the subjects covered.

To become associate professor in public law, I had to work on a large number of subjects and demonstrate my ability to express complicated problems simply, on nearly all of the main subjects of public law, ranging from constitutional law to administrative law to public international law, including more specific subjects such as European Union law. You learn to teach on the job. It was my vocation to instruct, to teach students to develop critical thought, to develop an analysis. In law, there are numerous professional opportunities, such as a career in the field of justice – magistrate, solicitor (favoured by students today) – or the civil service. Some choose to specialise in international functions or to continue to doctoral level to become a lecturer-researcher or to become an associate university professor.”

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