Eugénie 
MÉRIEAU

 
Academic Fellow

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Eugénie Mérieau is trained in Law, Political Science and Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Sorbonne/INALCO/SciencesPo). Her dissertation, entitled “Thai Constitutionalism and Legal Transplants, a Study of Kingship”, won numerous awards including the 2018 Best Dissertation in Law & Politics prize from the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris, the most prestigious prize in France.

She has held academic positions at Sciences-Po in Paris, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and the Von Humboldt Chair of Comparative Constitutionalism at the University of Göttingen in Germany. Prior to joining the Centre of Asian Legal Studies at NUS, she was a Visiting postdoctoral researcher with the Institute of Global Law & Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School.

Before embracing an academic career, she worked several years for the King Prajadhipok’s Institute under the Thai Parliament and worked as a consultant for the Asia-Pacific Program of the International Commission of Jurists.

  • Legal History
  • Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Political Theory