Amélie Lachapelle

Amélie Lachapelle has a doctorate in legal sciences from the University of Namur (2020).

She joined FUNDP in 2008 to complete her bachelor's degree in law. She then moved to UCL to complete her master's degree in State and Europe, graduating in September 2013. As part of this Master's programme, she did an Erasmus study period at U.S.A.L. (Salamanca-Spain) from February to June 2013.

Amélie Lachapelle started working at UNamur in September 2013, as an assistant in Sources and Principles of Law. A F.R.S.-FNRS aspirant, she then completed a doctoral thesis on the reconfiguration of whistleblowing in the era of tax whistleblowers (2015-2020). Her research focused on the legal, sociological, cultural, political and digital issues surrounding whistleblowing and the protean phenomenon of ‘whistleblowers’.

She teaches Comparative Law and English Legal Terminology and Environmental Law and Sustainable Development in the Faculty of Law, as well as Economic Law in the EMCP Faculty and the cross-disciplinary course ‘Law & Transition’ with her colleague Professor Stéphanie Wattier. She also teaches the Human Rights and Development course as part of the USL-Brussels/UNamur/ULB Master's specialisation in human rights.

More broadly, Amélie Lachapelle conducts her research in the field of the environment, sustainable development and transition, at the intersection of human rights (right to privacy, freedom of expression, property rights, right to a healthy environment) and digital law (sustainable IT).

She is a member of CRIDS/NaDI (Centre de Recherche Information, Droit et Société/Namur Digital Institute - UNamur).

She is also president of ADANam (the UNamur Law School Alumni Association) and the Law School's sustainable development and languages referent.

Together with Grégoire Wieërs (Medicine), she coordinates the institutional ‘JEDDT’ project (Journées d'Education au Développement Durable et à la Transition), a CaNDLE project supported by the King Baudouin Foundation.