Eugénie MÉRIEAU
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Political Science, University of Göttingen
Visiting Researcher
July 2017 - August 2017

Eugénie Mérieau studied Law, Political Sciences and Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the respective Parisian Universities of Sorbonne, Sciences Po and the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations. In 2017, she completed her PhD on "Thai Constitutionalism and Legal Transplants : a study of Kingship". She currently holds a teaching and research position at Sciences Po in Paris. From the 1st of September onwards, she will be a post-doctoral fellow under the Comparative Constitutionalism chair of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Göttingen, Germany.

She has lived for 8 years in Thailand where she held several positions including researcher for the King Prajadhipok's Institute under the Thai Parliament and consultant for the International Commission of Jurists.

Her research interests focus on constitutional transplants and authoritarian constitutionalism, especially in the Asian context.

Her most quoted article is "Thailand's Deep State, Royal Power and the Constitutional Court", published by the Journal of Contemporary Asia in 2016. She also contributed to several Routledge "Asia" and "Law in Asia" series. Her published works have been translated into Thai, German and French.