Pierre Brunet (Paris): Navigating the "Rights of Nature Turns": main issues

Due to the current situation the lecture was part of the digital Fellow Meeting of the Käte Hamburger Center.

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Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Pierre Brunet obtained his doctorate degree in Law at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense in 1997 with a thesis entiteld "Le concept de représentation dans la théorie de l'Etat". Subsequently, Pierre Brunet taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). In 2000 he was named Professor of Public Law at the University of Rouen. From 2004 to 2015 he was professor at the Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense. Furthermore, he was a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) from 2009 to 2014. In 2015, Prof. Brunet went to the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne), where he also served as Director of the LL.M. de droit français et droit europén and the Double LL.M. Sorbonne-Queen Mary. In addition, he was Director of the Public Law Department of the Sorbonne Law School from 2016 to 2019. Pierre Brunet is co-editor and member of several editorial boards of French and foreign journals, among others the journal "Droit et Société" (LGDJ). Moreover, he was a visiting professor at universities in Brazil, Italy, Japan, USA and Argentina.

His main research interests include jurisprudence, legal theory, French and comparative constitutional law, French administrative law and legal argumentation. For some years, he has been working on constitutional environmentalism, animal rights and environmental ethics and the related synthesis of constitutional law and legal theory.

Since May 2020 Prof. Dr. Pierre Brunet has been a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Law as Culture" in Bonn.