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WATTIER Stéphanie

Stéphanie Wattier

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Biography

Stéphanie Wattier is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Namur, where she teaches courses in constitutional law, civil liberties, and law, gender, and society. She is co-director of the Vulnerabilities and Societies Center (V&S) and Vice-President of the Transitions Institute.

Her research focuses primarily on fundamental rights, and she has specific expertise in "law and religions" as well as "law and gender."

She earned her doctorate in legal sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain in 2015. Her thesis focused on the public funding of religious denominations and non-denominational philosophical organizations (Bruylant, 2016).

Faculties/Departments/Services

Research institutes

Transitions - Membre

Research center

Centre Vulnérabilités et sociétés - Directeur/Directrice d'un centre/unité de recherche

Organs

Domains of expertise

  • Constitutional Law
  • Fundamental Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Law and Religions
  • Law and Gender

External responsibilities

  • Associate Researcher at the Chair of Religious Law (UCLouvain)
  • Member of the Management Committee for the Specialized Master's Degree in Gender Studies
  • Member of the Women and Science Committee
  • Co-Director of the Law and Religion Collection (Bruylant, Larcier)
  • Member of the Editorial Board and Scientific Committee of the Public Law Library Collection (Larcier)
  • Member of the Editorial Board and Scientific Committee of the PubliAdmin Journal (die Keure – la Charte)
  • Member of the Unia Support Committee
  • Member of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS)
  • Member of the Law and Religion Scholars Network (LARSN)
  • Member of the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA)
  • Member and contributor to the European Eurel network
  • Member of the Association of Studies on Law and Society

Degrees

  • Doctorate in Legal Sciences (Catholic University of Louvain) - 2015
  • European Interuniversity Diploma "Gratianus" in States, Religions, and Freedoms (University of Paris XI) - 2014
  • Master's Degree in Law with a Specialized Focus in "State and Europe" (Catholic University of Louvain, High Distinction) - 2010

Prizes

F.R.S-FNRS Fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain (2012-2016)

F.R.S-FNRS Honorary Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain (2016-2019)

2025-2026

2024-2025

2023-2024

2022-2023

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