Yseult Marique

Senior lecturer, University of Essex
Yseult read law at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She holds a postgraduate degree in notariaat from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB). Between 1999 and 2006 she worked as a legal clerk in a notary office and as a compliance officer in a bank in Brussels, in parallel as a research assistant at the Centre de droit public, Université libre de Bruxelles. Her doctoral research, entitled A legal narrative for English and Belgian public-private partnerships was carried out under the supervision of Professor John Bell, at the University of Cambridge (2011). She moved to the University of Essex in 2010. She is a research fellow at the University of Speyer (Germany, 2016-) and a research associate at the Centre de droit Public of the ULB (2009-).

Yseult's research is strongly anchored in comparative public law, with a keen interest for history and political philosophy. She seeks to develop three main research areas : 1) the rule of law and its practical implementation in relation to issues of access in Western societies when resources are limited; 2) administrative enforcement and ethics of care in Western societies both today and in the past; 3) administrative normativity (as a reasoning process and constraint as much as a social construct).

Between 2011 and 2016, she was co-director of the double degree LLB English and French Law (with Maîtrise 1), a partnership between the University of Essex, the University of Paris-Ouest-Nanterre, Lyon 3 and Toulouse-Capitole. She thaught in the Global Bachelor Programme at the University of Dauphine (London campus, 2014-2016) and comparative administration at the ULB (2011-2020).

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/).

An (elected) associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Yseult is a member of ReNEUAL (Research network on EU administrative law), UKAJI (Essex), and Jus Publicum. She is actively engaged in two academic networks: the Future of administrative law (Brussels) and the transnational administrative law network (Barcelona), under the umbrella of which she is co-editing an edited collection on this topic in French (forthcoming in Bruylant). She sits in the editorial board of REALaw. She is also a member of a number of committees of comparative and European law journals (Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law (2020-2022), Central European Public Administration Review (CEPAR), Droit Public Comparé - Comparative Public Law (a new online journal starting publication in 2022 in open access) and French Yearbook of Public Law (a new online open access journal with its first issue planned for 2022)). She is very happy to be contacted in relation to the British Association of Comparative Law and its blog (https://british-association-comparative-law.org/) and REALaw.blog.