The professors teaching at Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi are the same renowned professors currently teaching at Paris-Sorbonne and Paris-Descartes, in Paris. They are committed to provide the same world-class education in Abu Dhabi as they offer in Paris. They are all part of “La Sorbonne”—and so are our students!
Below are gathered names and short biographies of all the heads of academic programmes at PSUAD.
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Pr. Jean-Yves de Cara – Executive Director |
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| State doctor in Public Law, laureate in Law, Professor at Paris Descartes University; has been visiting fellow at Cambridge and is frequent visiting lecturer in universities in UK, Germany, and the US as well as in St Joseph University in Lebanon. His doctorate thesis concerned the concept on non intervention in International law. His research covers international public law evolutions, international commercial law, and commercial market law. He lectured on the subject in The Hague International Law Academy. He is registered barrister in France and England. He is advisor to the European Justice Court and is an arbitrator and judge at The Hague International Tribunal. | |
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Dr. Fabien CHAREIX - Deputy Director for academic affairs |
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| He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Fontenay/Saint-Cloud (1991) and an Agrégé in philosophy (1993). He obtained a PhD in philosophy in 1999. Since 2001, he is an associate professor and has been lecturing at the University of Science and Technology of Lille (USTL), Physics Study and Research Unit, and the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV). Main fields of study: history and philosophy of science in the classical age, philosophy of physics. | |
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Dr. Ella Dardaillon - Archaeology and History of Art |
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| Graduated from the Ecole du Louvre and Doctor in Near East Archaeology, ED, was a fellow from 1998 to 2001 at the French Institute of Near Eastern Archaelogy (IFAPO, Damascus, Syria). She worked at the Department of Near Eastern Archeology of the Louvre Museum and was during several years Assistant professor at the Ecole du Louvre and at the Paris IV-Sorbonne University (France). Her main topic of research is about Bronze Age Metallurgy (3d and 2d millenium BC) and the near eastern workshops of traditionnal metallurgy, in particular in modern Syria. This pluridisciplinary study project belongs to the program of the CNRS Laboratory Archéorient (Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon). | |
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Dr. Huguette Méau-Lautour - Law and Political Science/ Economics and Management |
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Huguette Méau-Lautour is doctorated in private law and professor at Paris Descartes University since 1989. There she founded the master of notarial law that led to his election as Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1993. For two terms, she held also several responsibilities at the University such as Vice President for Legal Science. Her thesis on the theories of the legal act of the donation led her to work and publish on topics that involve the whole family property law and contract law- both areas that she teaches. She was a visiting professor at various European universities such as the University of Vienna, and also Tunisia. She is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and currently professor emeritus. | |
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Dr. Brigitte Dumortier - Geography |
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| An alumna of the Ecole Normale Superieure, a laureate in Geography with a PhD in Country Planning, Dr. Brigitte Dumortier is Associate Professor of Geography at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) where she is heading the Master Program in “Culture, Politics and Heritage”. Author of The Geography of Arab Orient (Armand Colin), Contemporary Oman (Khartala) and of Globalization and Knowledge Society in the United Arab Emirates (Choisel), she is in charge of the Gulf team in the frame of the CITADAIN program (CITADAIN: Globalization, Urban Devlopment and Adjusment of Law; comparative study in India and in the Middle East). The program is funded by a French Ministry of Research (the National Agency for Research). | |
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Dr. Marie-Clarté Lagrée - History |
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| Agrégée in History (2002) and Doctor in Modern History (2008), Marie-Clarté Lagrée taught at the Paris IV-Sorbonne University and in the secondary education. Her research focuses on representations and the “imaginaries” in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | |
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Pr. Joel Broustail |
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Prof. Joël Broustail is an alumnus of Ecole Normale Supérieure. He has completed studies in History (Master of Paris-Sorbonne University and Agrégation) as well as in Economics (Master of Pantheon-Sorbonne University) and Business Administration (HEC Ph.D, Habilitation and Agrégation).
He has hold positions in the private sector (consulting for the Automotive Industry, various activities for the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry) and in the higher administration (technical advisor to the French Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research during 4 years). As a faculty, he was first an Associate Professor at ESCP, then became University Professor and joined Paris-Sorbonne University (Faculty of International Business and Languages) in 1997. He has been Visiting Faculty or Lecturer in many institutions worldwide and was also posted 10 years in South-East Asia with various missions on behalf of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Recently, he has been the French co-director of the French-Vietnamese business school at Ho Chi Minh City (CFVG-HCMV) during 4 years and he was awarded the merit medal for Education by the Vietnamese Government.
Author of 30 various articles and books, his main research activities deal with the theories of organization (Organizational Behaviour) with an historical and cross-cultural perspective, as well as with International Corporate Strategy and Management in transitory economies.
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Dr. Vital Rambaud - Modern Literature |
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| Alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Associate of Classics, Vital Rambaud taught at the University of Paris-Sorbonne since 1982. He specializes in French literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He published the novels of Maurice Barres and travel in the collection "Mouthpieces" and has devoted many articles to this author. His research focuses also on the image of Venice in the literature on the work of Proust and the writers of the twentieth century journalists
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Dr. Jacob Schmutz - Philosophy |
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| Jacob Schmutz is associate professor in philosophy and has been teaching at Paris-Sorbonne University since 2004. He studied philosophy, political science and history in Brussels, Cambridge and Paris; furthermore, he was a scientific member of the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid). As a specialist in medieval philosophy and Renaissance, his work to date has been mainly focused on how the Jesuits of the Renaissance read Aristotle and the medieval theologians. He is currently working on medieval theories of belief in a comparative perspective as well as philosophical lexicography. Being also a translator, he helped introducing Eric Voegelin, Niklas Luhmann, Kurt Flasch and Jan Assmann to the French-speaking world. | |
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Dr. Francoise Rulier Theuret - French language |
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| Françoise Rullier-Theuret, Agrégée in modern literature, is a professor of French at the Paris-Sorbonne University, where she teaches lexicology, grammar and stylistics. She is the author of several novels. Her research focuses on comedy writing. She has published books and articles on grammar and narrative genres issues. Also a researcher, she is part of the E. A. 4088 "Sense, Text, History". She specialised in the stylistics of the twentieth century popular novel, in spoken French grammar and in spelling modernising (she is part of the EROFS research group). | |
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