Professor Catherine Dupre

Catherine Dupré holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), and she specialises in comparative constitutional law and human rights in Europe. She held academic positions at the University of Birmingham and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and visiting positions at the Toulouse Institute of Political Sciences, University of Paris La Sorbonne, University of Akureyri (Iceland) and at the Max Planck Institute for Public Comparative and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany). She is a visiting professor that the University of the Faroe Islands where she teaches comparative constitutional law. Her research has been funded by the European University Institute (Jean Monnet Fellowship), the British Acamdemy, the Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC.

She has contributed to developing international scholarship on human dignity by writing two monographs, co-editing three special issues and a volume on dignity and democracy. She has also published numerous book chapters and articles in internationally peer-reviewed journals and given numerous keynote addresses at international conferences. In terms of jurisdictions, her research includes the European Union, the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights, and most of their common member states with a focus on Germany, Hungary, the UK and Iceland.

At Exeter she has developed and taught a number of optional modules on human dignity at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She contributed to establishing the Human Rights and Democracy Forum in 2017, and she has directed it since 2022. In 2023, she founded the Dignity&Democracy Blog together with students and colleagues. She is a founding member of the Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies established in 2025.

If you wish to find out more about her, you can listen to her talk about human dignity in the first Dialogue recorded for the Dignity&Democracy Blog.