Doctor in law and social sciences, Victor DAVID is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Development. He is currently a Research fellow invited by the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology in Marseille.
His current research and expertise focus on the evolution of environmental law. He is a recognized specialist of nature rights. Indigenous populations and cultural and legal pluralism also interest him.
Victor DAVID coordinates the CEPIL project of scientific support for the participatory development of the Environmental Code of the Loyalty Islands Province in New Caledonia with the consideration of the Kanak culture based on comparative law studies. CEPIL covers all areas of environmental law (protected areas and species, invasive species, natural resource management, waste, pollution, etc.).
He also supports, as part of the Voluntary Commitments to the UN-Conference on the Oceans, projects of feasibility studies of the recognition of the Pacific Ocean and more recently of the Mediterranean Sea as legal natural entities.
He is a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and an associate researcher at the International Observatory for the Rights of Nature based in Quebec. He is also a member of the Scientific Council of the New Caledonian Biodiversity Agency.