Visiting Professors Fall Semester 2024

David Garland F.B.A. is the Arthur T Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Born in Scotland, and educated at Edinburgh University, he moved to the USA in the 1990s. A socio-legal scholar and a criminologist by training, Garland is the author of several books in the sociology of punishment and on the welfare state. He is currently completing a book entitled "Penal Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment".

Aurore Gaillet is Professor of Public Law at the Université Toulouse Capitole and a faculty member of its Maurice Hauriou Institute (IMH).
Her research focuses on German and French constitutional law, comparative public law and constitutional history.
She was a fellow of the current Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt (2008/2009). Her multi-award-winning Ph.D. thesis "L'individu contre l'État. Essai sur l'évolution des recours de droit public dans l'Allemagne du xixe siècle" [History of legal remedies in German public law in the 19th century] was published in 2010 by Dalloz and for a German-speaking audience in the "Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte".
In 2018, she was appointed a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) for five years. During this term, she wrote her book "La Cour constitutionnelle fédérale allemande. Reconstruire une démocratie par le droit (1945-1961)" about the early years of the German Federal Constitutional Court, which was published in 2021 and received recognition on both sides of the Rhine. It was awarded the Prix 2022 de la Fondation Édouard Bonnefous - Institut de France.
She has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Greifswald, Université Laval and the University of Zurich (2022). Professor Gaillet regularly lectures on comparative constitutional law and has been invited to the universities of Münster, Passau, Osnabrück and Freiburg. 
She ist a member of the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
Professor Gaillet is a sought-after expert in print and broadcast medias on issues of constitutional law.
For more information please visit:Aurore Gaillet auf der Website der Université Toulouse I Capitole