Justine Lacroix is Professor of Political Theory at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a member of the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. She is the author of several books on the debate between liberalism and communitarianism (Communautarisme versus libéralisme. Quel modèle d'intégration politique ? , Éditions de l'ULB, 2004 ; Michaël Walzer. Le pluralisme et l'universel, Michalon, 2001), to the political philosophy of Europe (L'Europe en procès. Quel patriotisme au-delà des nationalismes ?, Cerf, 2004), to intellectual debates on European construction (La Pensée française à l'épreuve de l'Europe, Grasset, 2018 ; and, with Kalypso Nicolaïdis, European Stories. Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Contexts, Oxford University Press, 2010).
From 2010 to 2016, she led a European Research Council (ERC)-funded project on critiques of human rights that led to the publication, with Jean-Yves Pranchère, of Le Procès des droits de l'homme. Genealogie du scepticisme démocratique (Seuil, 2016 - translated into English Human Rights on Trial, Cambridge University Press, 2018). In 2019, she published, with Jean-Yves Pranchère, a short work in defense of human rights (Les Droits de l'homme rendent-ils idiots ?, Seuil, coll. " La République des idées ", 2019) which won the 2020 International Prize of the Quarterly Review of Human Rights. A member of the editorial board of Esprit magazine, Justine Lacroix has taught at several universities in France and abroad, and will be a visiting professor at École normale supérieure-PSL in 2024.
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Justine Lacroix
Professor of Political Theory, Free University of Brussels
