Eugénie Mérieau (born 1986[1]) is a French political scientist and constitutionalist, specialising in politics of Thailand, authoritarian constitutionalism and legal transplants. She is an associate professor (maître de conférences) of Public Law at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
Eugénie Mérieau | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1986 |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Spouse | Piyabutr Saengkanokkul |
Life and work
editMérieau studied Law at the Paris 1 University (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Political Science at the Sciences Po, and Thai studies at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris. She worked as a researcher at the King Prajadhipok's Institute in Bangkok, consultant for the Asia-Pacific Office of the International Commission of Jurists, research fellow at Sciences Po in Paris and Thammasat University in Bangkok, as well as visiting scholar at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore. In 2017 she completed her Ph.D. at INALCO with a thesis on "Thai Constitutionalism and Legal Transplants: a study of Kingship" which won the 2018 Best Dissertation in Law and Politics prize of the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris.[2]
From 2017 to 2019 she was a research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Comparative Constitutionalism, University of Göttingen.[3] In 2019–2020, she was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School,[4] and subsequently a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore. She has commented on the political situation and developments in Thailand for international media, including The Conversation,[5] The New York Times,[6] and The Atlantic.[7]
In 2021, she was appointed maître de conférences (associate professor) at the Sorbonne Law School, Paris 1 University, where she teaches constitutional law. Her research interest is focused on illiberal constitutionalism, globalisation of law, rule of law and state of emergency, epistemology and methology of comparative law, as well as Asian constitutional laws.[8]
Eugénie Mérieau is married to the Thai constitutional law scholar and politician Piyabutr Saengkanokkul.[9]
Publications (selection)
edit- Les Chemises rouges de Thaïlande [The Red Shirts of Thailand]. IRASEC. 2013.
- (editor) The Politics of (No) Elections in Thailand: Lessons from the 2011 General Election. White Lotus Press. 2016.
- Mérieau, Eugénie (2016). "Thailand's Deep State, Royal Power, and the Constitutional Court (1997–2015)". Journal of Contemporary Asia. 46 (3): 445–466. doi:10.1080/00472336.2016.1151917.
- Marco Bünte; Björn Dressel, eds. (2017). The legal–military alliance for illiberal constitutionalism in Thailand. Routledge. pp. 140–159.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - Le constitutionnalisme thaïlandais au prisme de ses emprunts étrangers : une analyse de la fonction royale [Thai Constitutionalism and Legal Transplants: a study of Kingship]. Institut Universitaire Varenne. 2018.
- "Buddhist Constitutionalism in Thailand: When Rājadhammā Supersedes the Constitution". Asian Journal of Comparative Law. 14: 283–305. 2018.
- La dictature, une antithèse de la démocratie ? 20 idées reçues sur les régimes autoritaires [Dictatorship, an antithesis of democracy? 20 preconceived ideas about authoritarian regimes]. Le Cavalier Bleu. 2019.
- Helena Alviar García; Günter Frankenberg, eds. (2019). French authoritarian constitutionalism and its legacy. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 185–208.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - "Thailand's Lèse-Majesté Law: On Blasphemy in a Buddhist Kingdom". Buddhism, Law and Society. 4: 53–92. 2019.
- Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand's Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law. Hart Publishing. 2021.
References
edit- ^ "Mérieau, Eugénie". Identifiants et Référentiels pour l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche.
- ^ "Prix de la chancellerie 2018 : 2 étudiants de l'Inalco lauréats". Inalco.
- ^ "Dr. Eugénie Mérieau". Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
- ^ "2019–2020 Visiting Researchers". Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020.
- ^ Eugénie Mérieau (3 February 2017). "Seeking more power, Thailand's new king is moving the country away from being a constitutional monarchy". The Conversation.
- ^ Eugénie Mérieau (9 February 2019). "A Military Dictatorship Like No Other". The New York Times.
- ^ Eugénie Mérieau (20 March 2019). "How Thailand Became the World's Last Military Dictatorship". The Atlantic.
- ^ "Mme Eugénie Mérieau, Maître de conférences". Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
- ^ "Admirers hope Piyabutr is not "too fast to live" kind". Thai PBS World. 24 April 2019.