Bénédicte Girard

Law

Following the completion of her PhD at Université Paris 1 in 2013 (Civil Liability and Fundamental Rights, under the supervision of Professor Muriel Fabre-Magnan), Bénédicte Girard was appointed Senior Lecturer at the same university, where she taught from 2014 to 2015.

Having passed the French agrégation in Private Law and Criminal Sciences in 2015, she joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Strasbourg, where she is currently Professor of Law. She is Director of the Institute of Judicial Studies (Institut d’Études Judiciaires) and of the Master’s programme in Fundamental Private Law (Droit Privé Fondamental). She is also a member of the CDPF research centre.

Her teaching and research focus on the law of obligations, particularly civil liability. Her work explores, in particular, the interplay between fundamental rights and civil liability, as well as the reparation of historical crimes.