Yseult Marique

Yseult is a Professor at Essex Law School with expertise in comparative public law in Europe and a keen interest for interdisciplinarity (history, ethics and political philosophy). She teaches French public law (Essex), the law of public finances; federalism and local government; and law and economics at the UC Louvain (2022-) and administrative real estate law at the ULB (2022-). She holds a PhD from Cambridge (2011) and law degrees from the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (Candidatures, FUSL), the Université libre de Bruxelles (Licences, ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Licenciaat notariaat, VUB). She is a research associate at the Centre de droit Public of the ULB (Belgium, 2009-) and the Centre Montesquieu d'Etudes de l'Action Publique (Belgium, 2022-). From 2016 to 2023, she was a Fellow of the Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für Öffentliche Verwaltung (Speyer).

Yseult develops three main research areas : 1) the practical implementation of good administration; 2) the interactions between administrative enforcement and ethics of care in Western societies in the past, today and in the future; 3) administrative normativity (as a reasoning process, a constraint and a social construct). Three recurring issues are at the core of her investigation into the many forms (in)equality takes: 1) the allocation of scarce resources (money, air, soil) across time; 2) the reconfiguration of the spatial dimension of authority, sovereignty and coercion (especially transnational, local and private) and 3) processes, expressions, and articulation of differences, differentiation and disagreement.

Her book Public Private Partnership and the Law (EE, 2014) has been shortlisted for the 2015 Birks Prize for outstanding legal scholarship. Yseult has been the recipient of a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust small research grant (2013-2015), a ESRC - Essex Impact Acceleration Account grant (2016), a SLS small project grant (2017-2018) and a Britisch Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2016-2017). With Dr Vaccari (Essex) and Prof Napoli Coordes (Arizona State University), she is now embarking on a research into financial distress of local public bodies (funded by Insol International). With Prof Slautsky (ULB), she is a guest co-editor for a special issue on "Resistance to legal transplants in the European administrative space - An open ended reading of legal change" (Review of European administrative law, 2021). With Dr Tambou (Paris Dauphine), she coordinated a blog series: "Data protection and Covid-19 - Comparative perspectives", published during the Summer 2020 on Blogdroiteuropeen (available here: https://blogdroiteuropeen.com/category/nos-contenus/e-conference/data-protection-issues-related-to-covid-19/).

Her book Public Private Partnership and the Law (Edward Elgar 2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 Birks Prize for outstanding legal scholarship. Yseult has been the recipient of a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust small research grant (2013-2015), a ESRC - Essex Impact Acceleration Account grant (2016), a SLS small project grant (2017-2018) and a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2016-2017).