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Eugénie Mérieau
Eugénie Mérieau (born 1986[1]) is a French political scientist and constitutionalist, specialising in politics of Thailand, authoritarian constitutionalism and legal transplants. She is an associate professor (maître de conférences) of Public Law at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Life and workMérieau studied Law at the Paris 1 University (Panthéon-Sorbonne)[citation needed], Political Science at the Sciences Po, and Thai studies at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris. She worked as a researcher at the King Prajadhipok's Institute in Bangkok, consultant for the Asia-Pacific Office of the International Commission of Jurists, research fellow at Sciences Po in Paris and Thammasat University in Bangkok, as well as visiting scholar at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore. In 2017 she completed her political sciences Ph.D. at INALCO with a thesis on "Thai Constitutionalism and Legal Transplants: a study of Kingship" which won the 2018 Best Dissertation in Law and Politics prize of the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris.[2] From 2017 to 2019 she was a research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Comparative Constitutionalism, University of Göttingen.[3] In 2019–2020, she was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School,[4] and subsequently a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore. She has commented on the political situation and developments in Thailand for international media, including The Conversation,[5] The New York Times,[6] and The Atlantic.[7] In 2021, she was appointed maître de conférences (associate professor) at the Sorbonne Law School, Paris 1 University, where she teaches constitutional law. Her research interest is focused on illiberal constitutionalism, globalisation of law, rule of law and state of emergency, epistemology and methology of comparative law, as well as Asian constitutional laws.[8] Eugénie Mérieau is married to the Thai constitutional law scholar and politician Piyabutr Saengkanokkul.[9] Stances and controversiesIn France, some academics criticize Eugénie Mérieau for producing questionnable texts in terms of scientificity, lacking neutrality and marked by europeocentrism.[10] Eugénie Mérieau is one of the promoters in France of the conspiracy theory of the Deep State. She applied it for the first time in the case of Thailand in an article published in the Journal Contemporary Asia.[11] She says to agree with Donald Trump on the existence of a Deep State in the United States.[12] In her various interventions in relation to Thailand, most of the time she fails to tell the audience that she is married to the Thai politician Piyabutr Saengkanokkul and the conflicts of interests she might be in.[13] On the 12th of April 2020, Eugénie Mérieau promoted the clinical use of hydroxychloroquine in the context of the Covid-19 global pandemic following an article published in a french media by her friend the journalist Laure Siegel.[14] Eugénie Mérieau considers that Xi Jinping's China is not a power having imperialist perspectives and that Western countries constitute a genuine "axis of evil".[15] Publications (selection)
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