Alicia Mornington

Alicia Mornington-Engel has been a lecturer in British Civilization at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne since 2016. She holds a PhD in political science from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (2015), is also an associate professor of English (2014), a graduate of Sciences Po Paris (2009), and a master’s degree in Political Theory and Human Rights (MA) from University College London (UCL).

She is also attached to the Norm, Society and Philosophy (NoSoPhi) research team within the Centre de Philosophie de la Sorbonne (PhiCo EA 3562), and is part of the Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne (ISJPS, UMR 8103). She was an ATER at the University of Strasbourg (2013-14) and a visiting scholar at Oxford University (Nuffield College), the LSE (Global Public Policy Network), Columbia University (Alliance Call) and Ben Gurion (Erasmus Mundus).

Her research focuses on liberalism, particularly on the concept of consent, the subject of her thesis where she analyses its place in liberal and libertarian theory and its legal scope. This research aims to analyse the growing tension between state neutrality and paternalism, with on the one hand the return to a paternalistic or perfectionist state normativity (bioethics, “nudge”, developments in family law) and on the other a movement advocating a contrario the reduction of the legitimate sphere of state or supra-state intervention (libertarian movement and party, developments in labour law, UKIP).