Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez is a professor of law at Université Paris Nanterre and a senior fellow of the Institut universitaire de France. She served as the director of the Centre de recherches et d’études sur les droits fondamentaux (CREDOF) from 2015 to 2023. Her work lies on the field of human rights theory, with a particular focus on issues of religious freedom and religious non discriminations and on the interactions of law and gender.
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The Enshrinement of Abortion in the French Constitution. Kairos: Dobbs as a window of opportunity? (Part I)
On 8 March 2024, the sealing ceremony for the 25th amendment to the French Constitution of 1958 took place at the ministry of Justice in Paris, marking the inclusion in the Constitution of the “guaranteed freedom” for women to ...
The Enshrinement of Abortion in the French Constitution. Phronesis: after the celebration, a call for caution (Part II)
The first part of this blog examined the process that led to the amendment that enshrined abortion in the French Constitution. In this second part, it is argued that, while the amendment can be celebrated as a pioneering move thanks ...
Niqabs in Strasbourg, Again: Part 2
In a blog post yesterday, I considered the impact which the recent decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in Dakir v. Belgium and Belcacemi and Oussar v. Belgium might have on the Court’s conception of “living together”. ...
Niqabs in Strasbourg, Again: Part 1
Burqa bans seem to be in fashion, not only in the 5-odd countries that have chosen this policy line, not only at the European People’s Party within the European Parliament, but at the European Court of Human Rights as well. Only three ...
