Cécile Degiovanni
Stipendiary Lecturer in Law (Jurisprudence)
Cécile Degiovanni has been trained both in philosophy (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, agrégation de philosophie, New York University and Oxford University – in the last two as a visiting student) and in law (Université Paris X Nanterre). She has also worked 6-months as a law clerk in various courts such as the Conseil d’Etat (French supreme court for administrative law), the Cour de Cassation (French supreme court for private and criminal law) and the European Court of Human Rights. She is currently doing a DPhil in Jurisprudence as a Tang scholar, and asks in her thesis when we should be able to waive our fundamental rights.
At Hertford, she teaches Jurisprudence to second-year undergraduate students.