Areas of responsibility
Professor at the Department of Law, School of Business and Law, University of Agder.
Holds a joint Master in Advanced Studies in Comparative Law (DEA de droit comparé) from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, and a PhD. (Dr. juris) in Public Law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. She wrote a PhD dissertation on “The Sovereignty of the British Parliament” (published in 2011, L’Harmattan, Paris).
Worked as a researcher at the Department of Public and International Law, Law Faculty, University of Oslo in 2008-2009, on a project on “Dispute Settlement between the State and Municipalities in Norway” with professors Eivind Smith and Harald Baldersheim.
Higher Executive Officer at the Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board (UNE) in 2010.
Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public and International Law, Law Faculty, University of Oslo (2010-2015), with a research project on the Norwegian parliament.
Nguyen Duy's research has been published in well-regarded journals and publishing houses, including Oxford University Press, Presses Universitaires de France, Scandinavian Studies in Law, Revue francaise de droit constitutionnel, Revue de droit public, AJDA, Fagbokforlaget, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Annuaire international de justice constitutionnelle.
- Leader of the research group in Comparative and Public Law, University of Agder
- Deputy Secretary General of the International Association of Constitutional Law IACL-AIDC
- Vice President of the Norwegian Association for Comparative Law
- Member of the Research Committee of the School of Business and Law, UiA.
- Member of the research group for Constitutional Studies, University of Oslo
- Member of the scientific board, IMODEV – Improving Public Policies in a Digital World , University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Member of OLA-Europe – Observatory on Local Autonomy
- Member of the Nordic network on Local Government (Nordisk nettverk i kommunalrett)
- Affiliated member of the Research group for Legal culture, University of Bergen
Teaching
Teaching includes:
- JUR210-1 The Rule of Law
- JUR405-1 International Human Rights Law and Institutions
- JUR207 Legal History and Comparative Law
- Earlier:
- SV-126-1 Business Law
- JUR-108-1 Rule of Law and Human Rights
- Guest lectures:
- JUS232 Legal History and Comparative Law (UiB)
- JUS134 History of Law and Comparative Law (UiB)
- Earlier:
- JUS5930 Comparative Public Law (UiO),
- JUTINTRO Introduction to the Norwegian Legal System (Constitutional Law) (UiO);
- FRAJUR French for lawyers (UiO);
- Classes in JUS2111 Constitutional law, International law and Human rights (statsforfatningsrett) (UiO)
Research
Main area of research: Constitutional Law (Norwegian, French, British) and Comparative Public Law with a focus on parliaments, democracy, constitutional review and human rights.
Open government
Digital disinformation
Local government and local democracy
Member of the DEFIDEM project, an international, multi-disciplinary (mainly law and political science) project to study ways of involving citizens directly in the workings of institutions and political decision-making processes, in order to promote inclusion, civic engagement and the development of a culture of participation.
Academic interests
Main research interests
- Constitutional Law
- Comparative (Public) Law
Special interests include:
- French Public Law
- British Constitutional Law
- Parliaments
- Parliamentarism
- Constitutional democracy
- Judicial Review / constitutional review
- Administrative Law (Open Government)
- Local Democracy and Local Autonomy
- Human Rights