Meet our team members

Marie Laur is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Neuchâtel where she works on democratic decay and human rights backlash in federal countries. She was awarded a SJD degree summa cum laude from the Central European University where she received the Academic Achievement Awards for First-Year and Advanced Doctoral Students. Before joining CEU, she studied in France, Northern Ireland and Belgium and holds a master’s degree in international and Comparative Law from the University of Toulouse. She worked as lawyer at the European court of human rights between 2012 and 2016 and as a research fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law from 2017 to 2020. 

Marie specializes in the field of comparative constitutional law and critical approaches to law. Her research focuses on democratic decay, pluralism and the public space. She has special expertise in emergency powers, their articulation with constitutionalism and the role of apex courts.