Our Research Committee
The Chair brings together a number of scholars specialising in comparative public law and comparative politics
Aurélien Antoine
Professeur agrégé at Jean Monnet University Saint-Étienne, Pr. Aurélien Antoine also serves as Vice-Dean for International Relations and Communication, and oversees several academic programmes, most notably the Master’s Degree in International, European, and Comparative Law (DIEC).
An expert in British law and institutions, he founded the Observatoire du Brexit in January 2017. He is the author of Brexit. Une histoire anglaise, published by Dalloz in 2020, for which he received the Édouard Bonnefous Prize from the Institut de France (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques) in 2022 and the 10th August Debouzy Prize in 2021. In 2023, the third edition of his book Droit constitutionnel britannique was published by LGDJ (with a foreword by Lord Mance and introductory remarks by Anthony Bradley).
In addition, he is regularly solicited for his expertise on these issues by various institutions and he appears frequently in national and international media outlets. He also advises several scholarly societies and other private organisations on Brexit-related topics.
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Meet our research team
Aurore Gaillet is a Professor of Public Law at Toulouse Capitole University and an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her work focuses on comparative public law, particularly Franco-German comparisons. Following a PhD devoted to nineteenth-century Germany, her current research centres on constitutional adjudication, with a strong focus on decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court.
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Aurore Gaillet
Full Professor of Public Law at Toulouse Capitole University
Anne Jacquemet-Gauché is a Professor of Public Law at the University of Clermont-Auvergne (France) and a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses primarily on comparative administrative law, with a particular emphasis on the topic of state liability, which was the subject of her PhD dissertation in 2010.
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Anne Jacquemet-Gauché
Full Professor of Public Law at the University of Clermont-Auvergne
Alexandre Guigue is a Professor of Public Law at Savoie Mont-Blanc University, Director of the Antoine Favre Research Centre in Law, and Co-Director of the Master’s degree in International Law (Cross-Border Law track). His research expertise lies in both public finance and constitutional law, with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. Pr. Guigue also serves on the board of the Société française de finances publiques and is co-editor of Jurisprudence. Revue critique.
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Alexandre Guigue
Full Professor of Public Law at Savoie Mont Blanc University
Étienne Cornut is a Professor of Private Law at Jean Monnet University Saint-Étienne and has been a member of CERCRID since 1 September 2019, serving as its director from 1 January 2021 to May 2025. He is also an elected member of the Law Faculty Council and of the Research Committee at Jean Monnet University
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Étienne Cornut
Full Professor of Private Law at Jean Monnet University Saint-Étienne
Fanny Jacquelot has been an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences HDR) at Jean-Monnet University Law Faculty since October 2011. She is a member of CERCRID and sits on both its Laboratory Council and its Documentation Committee. She also serves as Co-Director of the DIEC Master’s Degree at the Law Faculty.
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Fanny Jacquelot
Associate Professor in Public Law at Jean Monnet University Saint-Étienne
Mouna Mouncif-Moungache is an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) in Public Law at the Jean Monnet University Law Faculty and the current interim Director of CERCRID (UMR 5137). There she coordinates the transversal research programme “Law, Critique, and Digital Technology.” Her work focuses on European Union law, with a keen interest in industrial property, health, and digital regulation.
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Mouna Mouncif-Moungache
Associate Professor in Public Law at Jean Monnet University Saint-Étienne
Marie Padilla is an Associate Professor (Maîtresse de conférences) in Public Law at the University of Bordeaux Law Faculty and a member of CERCLE. Her field of expertise encompasses comparative law and the theory of legal comparison, British public law, and, more specifically, the relationship between legal education and academia.
Her recent research addresses the filiation between British public law and certain Commonwealth systems (Australia/New Zealand). She has been a visiting scholar at the Maison Française d’Oxford, at the Institute of European and Comparative Law in Oxford, and at the Centre for Public Law in Cambridge.
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Marie Padilla
Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Bordeaux
Juliette Ringeisen-Biardeaud is an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) at Paris Panthéon-Assas University, following ten years of legal practice as a member of the Paris Bar. She received the Franco-Scottish Association and Fondation Catholique Écossaise prize for her PhD dissertation.
In 2022, she published L’indépendance écossaise à l’ombre du Brexit with Éditions Panthéon-Assas. She is also a member of CERSA.
Her research focuses on Scotland, British and Scottish constitutional law, devolution, European integration, and intergovernmental relations in the United Kingdom.
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Juliette Ringeisen Biardeaud
Associate Professor in Public Law at Paris-Panthéon Assas University
Camille Bordère holds a PhD in Public Law from the University of Bordeaux and is currently an Associate Professor (Maîtresse de conférences) in Public Law at the University of Caen-Normandy.
She formerly held the postdoctoral fellowship at the Chair in Comparative Public Law and Politics between 2023 and 2025.
Her research focuses on the common law tradition, the methodology and epistemology of comparison, and digital law.
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Camille Bordère
Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Caen-Normandy
Lucien Carrier holds a PhD in Public Law from the University of Bordeaux and McGill University (joint doctoral degree) and is the current holder of the postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Chair in Comparative Public Law and Politics.
His work, situated at the crossroads of comparative law, constitutional theory, and legal anthropology, examines how legal traditions shape concepts such as state, sovereignty, and territory. His dissertation, “Naming the United Kingdom”, explores the classification of political forms through the intersecting perspectives of British, French, and Canadian scholarly traditions.
He teaches public law and comparative law in both French and English.
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Sedayet Mayaci is a contractual PhD candidate in comparative public law at Jean Monnet University. Conducting her doctoral research under the supervision of Professor Aurélien Antoine, her work focuses on nationality law in France and the United Kingdom. She is a member of CERCRID and the Chair of Comparative Public Law and Politics. She is currently a visiting researcher at the Maison Française d’Oxford, within the Institute of European and Comparative Law.
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Lucien Carrier
Sedayet Mayaci
Post-doctoral fellow affiliated with the Chair in Comparative Public Law and Politics
PhD Candidate funded by the Chair in Comparative Public Law and Politics