Dr Sylvie Langlaude

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Lecturer

Contact details
Email address s.langlaude@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line       (+44) 028 9097 3420      
Room 29.G06, 29 University Square

Degrees
Maîtrise in International and European Law, University of Aix-en-Provence, France
LLM in Human Rights Law, University of Nottingham
PhD, University of Bristol

Biography
Sylvie holds a law degree from the University of Aix-en-Provence (2001) and a LLM from the University of Nottingham (2002). She completed a PhD thesis at the University of Bristol on the right of the child to religious freedom in international law (2006). While doing her PhD she also taught at undergraduate level and did some consultancy work for the OSCE. From 2006-2008 she was a City Solicitors’ Educational Trust lecturer at the University of East London. She joined the School of Law at Queen’s in September 2008. Sylvie’s recent research was on the rights of religious associations before the European Court of Human Rights. She is currently looking at children and freedom of expression.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Rights and Accountability

Postgraduate

  • Theories of Rights
  • Human Rights

Research

Public international law and human rights, religious liberty, freedom of expression, children’s rights

Selected Publications

‘Children and Religion under Article 14 UNCRC: A Critical Analysis’ (2008) 16(4) International Journal of Children’s Rights 475-504

Book review of E. Örücü & D. Nelken (eds.), Comparative Law: A Handbook (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007) in (2008) 16(2) African Journal of International and Comparative Law 274-277

Book review of S. Knights, Freedom of Religion, Minorities and the Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) in (2008) 8(2) Human Rights Law Review 404-407

The Right of the Child to Religious Freedom in International Law (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007)

‘97 Members of the Gldani Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v Georgia’ [2007] 5 European Human Rights Law Review 583-591

‘Indoctrination, Secularism, Religious Liberty and the ECHR’ (2006) 55(4) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 929-944

‘Flogging Children with Religion: A Comment on the House of Lords’ Decision in Williamson’ (2006) 8 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 339-345