Eleonora Bottini

Adjunct Professor of Law

Eleonora Bottini is Full Professor of Public Law at the University of Caen Normandy (France). She specializes in Constitutional law (French and Comparative), Human Rights Law (International and European), and Legal Theory.

She has been teaching in various French and international institutions, such as the Sorbonne, Sciences Po Paris, Columbia University, University of Connecticut. At Fordham Law School, she teaches Comparative Constitutional Law as an adjunct faculty.

Prior to her current position, Professor Bottini was an associate professor at Sorbonne Law School (2015-2018), after receiving her PhD in Public Law at the University of Paris Nanterre (2014).

She holds affiliations with various US universities: as the Martin-Flynn Global Law Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law; as a research fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution; and as a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the inaugural co-chair of the French chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S).

Prof. Bottini specializes in comparative constitutional law and concentrates on the role of courts in democracies as well as on comparative election law. She is the author of multiple articles and conference papers in English, French and Italian. She published a book based on the PhD dissertation on “Constitutional Sanction: Analysis of a Doctrinal Argument” in 2016, with the French publisher Dalloz.