Aurélie Duffy-Meunier

Aurélie Duffy-Meunier is Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Aix-Marseille University, and member of the Institut Louis Favoreu, one of the research teams within the Joint Research Unit DICE, a laboratory specializing in international, comparative, and European law. She heads a bilingual undergraduate law program in French law and common law, and co-directs a University Diploma in Comparative Legal Studies. She is a member of the editorial board of the Revue Française de Droit Constitutionnel, the Revue Droit Public Comparé – Comparative Public Law, and the journal Confluence des droits.

She defended her doctoral thesis published in 2007 by LGDJ on the protection of rights and freedoms in the United Kingdom at the Faculty of Law of Aix-Marseille University. She received several prizes for this work, including awards from the French Society of Comparative Law, the International Institute of Human Rights, and the Varenne Foundation. A graduate of University College London (UCL), she was awarded, as part of her doctoral research, a grant from the French-American Foundation, which allowed her to work as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has taught at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and the University of Lorraine.

Her research focuses on comparative public law, particularly British law and the law of common law countries. She authors a regular column on British constitutional law in the Revue Française de Droit Constitutionnel. Focused on issues relating to the protection of rights and freedoms, constitutional justice, as well as contemporary themes concerning the conditions and crises of democracy, her most recent articles and books address populism, illiberal constitutional justice, the rule of law, and questions of participatory democracy.

She led a 2020 PHC project in partnership with University College Dublin on the theme of the citizen challenge of deliberative democracy in France and Ireland, and is involved in several research projects on issues related to citizen participation and democratic decision-making processes, as well as the rule of law (Project R2D2, Project IRN-DEFIDEM, Project Lexis, Project CONSTADEM, Project COREP).

At the Maison Française d’Oxford, she conducts research on citizen participation in the making of laws as part of the Lexis Project. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms, context, enforcement, and effectiveness of the right to petition, citizens’ assemblies, and government consultations in the United Kingdom. She is also working on a comparative study project on the rule of law between France and the United Kingdom.

Last publications

Books

• L’État de droit face aux crises. L’État de droit en crise, (co-ed. with Natasa Danelciuc-Colodrovschi, Laurence Gay, Caterina Severino, Xavier Magnon, Ariane Vidal-Naquet), Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille (PUAM), 2025, 370 p.
• La justice constitutionnelle illibérale. Un dialogue interdisciplinaire et de droit comparé, (co-ed. N. Perlo), RIDC, n°3, 2025.
• Populisme et changements constitutionnels, (co-ed. N. Perlo), Confluence des droits, 2024, 236 p.
• Droit des libertés fondamentales, (co-ed. L. Favoreu, P. Gaïa, A. Pena, A. Roux, G. Scoffoni, I. Fassassi, O. Le Bot, L. Pech, Paris, Dalloz, 9th edition, 2024.
• Introduction au droit public, en coll. avec E. Zoller, G. Guglielmi, I. Fassassi, Dalloz, 3rd ed., 2022.
• Quels espaces pour la démocratie participative ? Perspectives comparées, Paris, Mare & Martin, 2021, 208 p.

Articles

• « Le modèle de constitutionnalisme du Commonwealth et la question du dernier mot. Réflexions autour d’un mélange des genres constitutionnels », AIJC-XXXX-2024, PUAM, 2026, p. 593-611.
• « Situer le concept d’Etat de droit à l’aune de la Rule of Law », (co-ed. N. Danelciuc-Colodrovschi, A. Duffy-Meunier, L. Gay, C. Severino, X. Magnon, A. Vidal-Naquet), L’État de droit face aux crises. L’État de droit en crise, PUAM, 2025, p. 51-74.
• « Du droit de pétition aux Assemblées citoyennes. La place limitée des citoyens dans l’exercice de l’initiative législative au Royaume-Uni », (ed. M. Fatin-Rouge Stefanini, N. Danelciuc-Colodrovschi et C. Geynet-Dussauze), Repenser l’initiative législative dans et en dehors du Parlement : approche comparée, PUAM, Coll. Louis Favoreu, 2025, p. 273-289.
• « Guerre et Constitution au Royaume-Uni », AIJC-XXXIX-2023, PUAM, 2024, p. 575-611.
• « Populisme et changements constitutionnels au Royaume-Uni », with A. Young, in Populisme et changements constitutionnels, (ed. A. Duffy-Meunier, N. Perlo), Confluences des droits, 2024, p. 161-182.
• « Quelles règles de fonctionnement pour les Assemblées citoyennes ? Regards croisés franco-irlandais »,  with M.-L. Paris, (ed. M. Fatin-Rouge Stéfanini et X. Magnon), Les Assemblées citoyennes : nouvelles utopie démocratique ?, Confluences des Droits, DICE éditions, 2022, pp.133-164.

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