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Professor of Comparative Law and Law & Religion
Faculty of Laws
- Professor of Comparative Law and Law & ReligionFaculty of Laws
- University College London, Bentham House, London, WC1H OEG, United Kingdom
BIO
Myriam Hunter-Henin joined the Faculty of Laws in September 2003. She is a Council member of UCL's GCDC Global Centre for Democratic Resilience and a fellow of UCL's European Institute and the Institute of Human Rights.
Her main interests are Comparative Law, Theories of Democracy, Family Law, Law and Religion.
Her research addresses the interaction and tensions between law and religion in a comparative perspective. It also examines the interactions between human rights, constitutional law and normative conceptions of democracy and liberalism.
After graduating in Law both in France and England, she completed her DPhil at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris, France) on personal status, leading to a monograph (Pour une redefinition du statut personnel, PUAM, 2004, awarded the Dennery Prize), Myriam has mainly taught on comparative law, family law, law & religion and human rights, first at Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris, France) where she was a research and teaching fellow and subsequently at the Faculty of Laws at University College London, where she was consecutively appointed as lecturer, Senior lecturer, Reader and since October 2021, Professor. She was also invited to Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) (Rome, Italy) to teach on the Summer 2020 Programme on Constitutional Law (moved to on-line setting), to UCLouvain as visiting Professor in May 2022 and to over 60 talks and keynote lectures in prestigious Universities and settings, such as the French Conseil d’Etat (2016).
Keynote invitations include: Keynote Speaker at the American University of Paris “The Regulation of Religious Interests: a Test for the Resilience of Social Contract Theory” (December 2024); Keynote Speaker at the Biennial Finnish Research Conference in Theology and Religion “Religion and Freedom: Challenges and Prospects”, Helsinki (May 2022); French Conseil d’Etat presentation on Extra-territoriality and Comparative Law (January 2016); Sakharov Debate chaired by BBC presenter Martine Croxall on Religion and Human Rights (December 2014).
PhD Supervision
Prof. Hunter-Henin welcomes approaches for supervision of PhD candidates on Human Rights (especially issues of horizontal application; religious freedom; article 8 ECHR, right to education, comparison of implementation of HR and constitutional review in domestic European legal systems, broader impact on democracy theories, concept of rights, proportionality tests, comparison with discrimination provision), Law & Religion (especially religious symbols at work, school or in the public sphere; interactions with constitutional arrangements and normative conceptions of liberalism and democracy; religion and education), Bioethics and Comparative/International Family Law (especially surrogacy; same-sex couples).
Organisation of Conferences and Workshops
- Fundamental(ly) British Values, Thursday 16th November 2017, UCL.
- Closing event on “Negotiating with Religion”, 1st May 2013, UCL, Laws. More details available at: negotiating-religion.eventbrite.co.uk
- “Negotiating with Religion” in UCL Laws on 12th June 2012 as part of a series of workshops across UCL faculties. Please click here for more information on the June event and on the whole series.
- Law, Religion and Education conference held in Oxford on 8th and 9th October 2010, co-organised by the Institute of Global Law and the Maison française d’Oxford. more details here
- Seminar on Globalization, Prof. Jean-Louis Halpérin (ENS, Paris) as speaker, sponsored by the French Embassy, May 2009.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON APPOINTMENTS
- Professor of Comparative Law and Law & ReligionUniversity College London, Faculty of Laws
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