Alicia Mornington

Alicia Mornington-Engel has been a lecturer in British civilization at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne since 2016. Doctor of political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (2015), she is also an associate professor of English (2014 ), graduated from Sciences Po Paris (2009), and holds a master's degree in Political Theory and Human Rights ( MA .) from University College of London ( UCL).

She is also attached to the research team Norm, Society and Philosophy (NoSoPhi) within the Center for Philosophy of the Sorbonne (PhiCo EA 3562), and is part of the Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences of the Sorbonne ( ISJPS , UMR 8103). She was ATER at the University of Strasbourg (2013-14) and visiting scholar at Oxford University (Nuffield College), LSE ( Global Public Policy Network), Columbia University (Alliance Call) and Ben Gurion (Erasmus Mundus ).

Her research focuses on liberalism, in particular on the concept of consent, the subject of her thesis where she analyzes its place in liberal and libertarian theory and its legal scope. This research aims to analyze the growing tension between state neutrality and paternalism, with on the one hand the return to a paternalistic or perfectionist state normativity (bioethics, "nudge", developments in family law) and on the other a movement advocating a contrario the reduction of the legitimate sphere of state or supra-state intervention (libertarian movement and party, evolution of labor law, UKIP ).