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In 2025–2026, the UNamur School of Law has the honor and privilege of welcoming Professor Delphine Misonne as the recipient of a Francqui Chair awarded by the Francqui Foundation: “Need for the Environment, Need for Law?” Delphine Misonne is an FNRS Research Fellow, Professor at UCLouvain, Director of CEDRE, and a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.The organization of this lecture is fully aligned with the Faculty of Law’s overarching theme dedicated to the environment, nature, and our earth—the very foundation of life: “Re-enchanting the Earth.” 

The Faculty of Law at the University of Namur (UNamur) has long been committed to the pursuit of academic excellence and inter-university cooperation promoted by the Francqui Foundation.By hosting Belgian and international professors and inviting its own faculty members to other universities, the Faculty of Law actively contributes to the influence of the Francqui Chairs, which serve as true vehicles for scientific exchange, intellectual debate, and the promotion of high-level research.This page presents the general framework of the Francqui Chairs, as well as the history of visiting professors at the UNamur Faculty of Law and UNamur professors invited to other academic institutions.

Interested in approaching law from an international perspective? In the spring of 2027, the UNamur School of Law will host the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) on the topic of Comparative Contract Law. This 3-ECTS-credit module will be taught in English and is open to law students from partner universities.This international program will bring together students and faculty from several European universities. Through a virtual session organized in the fall of 2026, followed by an intensive week of in-person classes at the University of Namur from March 15 to 19, 2027, students will explore contract law across different legal traditions and compare their knowledge with that of students from Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, France, and Switzerland, among other countries.

Since 2021, the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur has been engaged in a fruitful collaboration with Thomas Sankara University and the Ouagadougou Bar Association in Burkina Faso. This cooperation with Burkina Faso aims to strengthen the academic and professional capacities of the Burkinabe partners by addressing their priority needs.

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Established about ten years ago within the UNamur School of Law, the Center for Vulnerabilities and Societies (V&S) has established itself as a hub for research and critical reflection on contemporary situations of vulnerability. Born from the merger of two existing centers (PROJUCIT and Fundamental Rights and Social Cohesion), it has gradually organized itself around a clear objective: to analyze how the law addresses the realities experienced by people affected by poverty, precariousness, and discrimination, or whose fundamental rights are at risk of being compromised.

Last November, as part of Rule of Law Week, students from the UNamur School of Law visited middle school students in grades 7 and 8. Their goal: to discuss the key principles of the rule of law and democracy in an era of AI and the rise of authoritarian tendencies.

What if, starting in high school, students could contribute to real scientific research? That is the goal of the “student-researcher” program, launched at UNamur more than fifteen years ago. Donaciene Quoirin and Lisa Salmon, law students, have experienced it firsthand. Their stories.

At a time when issues of gender equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the fight against violence against women are at the forefront of public debate, Stéphanie Wattier, a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur, has published a reference work titled *Gender Through the Lens of Human Rights*, published by Anthemis.

230 participants, 25 papers, a shared conviction: domestic violence must be studied in a different way. Neither marginal nor accidental, it constitutes a major, deeply rooted social phenomenon whose manifestations extend far beyond its most visible forms. A conference held at UNamur and a collective volume are fundamentally reshaping our understanding of the phenomenon.

They are rarely asked for their opinion. Yet the law is clear: every child must be able to express their views on decisions that affect them. A gap persists between this principle and reality. This is what the CAPACITI project seeks to bridge by bringing together partners from the Greater Region around a shared goal: making children’s rights a concrete reality. At UNamur, a team of legal experts has examined an issue as common as it is sensitive—parental separations—to better understand it… and to bring about changes in practice.

The days when people chose a career once and for all and when experience alone was enough to climb the career ladder seem to be over. Nowadays, lifelong learning has almost become the norm. “There is clearly a trend in this direction, particularly in the context of automation and artificial intelligence, which makes acquiring new skills all the more important,” says Michel Ajzen, a professor in the Management Department at the Faculty of Economics, Management, and Communication at SciencePo, UNamur, and a member of the Namur Digital Institute. “And it’s not a generational issue: whether you’re 30, 40, or 50, this need exists.”