Dr. Alain Zysset

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Alain Zysset is a legal political theorist with a focus on practices in constitutional law, human rights law, and international law. His research aims to reconstruct and evaluate practices from the perspective of normative theory, particularly examining the practices of the European Court of Human Rights, UN treaty bodies, and the International Criminal Court. His expertise includes human rights theory, constitutional theory, democratic theory, and criminal law theory. Currently, Alain is engaged in a research project involving a monograph that studies the nexus between the European Court of Human Rights and theories of populism. His research has received funding from a two-year fellowship from the Norwegian Research Council and is contracted with Cambridge University Press for publication in 2024. Alain has published numerous articles in leading international journals within the fields of constitutional law, international law, and legal political theory.

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2023-01-01 — Present

School of Law • University of Glasgow

Alain Zysset works as a Reader in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow, supervising doctoral students and contributing to various legal fields.