Amélie LACHAPELLE

Introduction

Amélie Lachapelle holds a doctorate in legal sciences from the University of Namur (2020).

Amélie Lachapelle started working at UNamur in September 2013, as an assistant in Sources and Principles of Law. As a F.R.S.-FNRS aspirant, she then completed a PhD thesis on the reconfiguration of whistleblowing in the era of tax whistleblowers (2015-2020). In this framework, she focused on the legal, sociological, cultural, political and digital issues of whistleblowing and the protean phenomenon of "whistleblowers".

She teaches Comparative Law and English Legal Terminology and Environmental and Sustainable Development Law in the Faculty of Law, as well as Economic Law in the Faculty of Economic, Social and Management Sciences. She also teaches a course on Legal Aspects of IT Security in the framework of the Master in CyberSecurity ULB/UNamur.

More broadly, Amélie Lachapelle carries out her research in the field of environment and sustainable development, at the intersection of human rights (right to privacy, freedom of expression, property rights) and digital law (sustainable IT, data protection).

She is a member of two research centres: CRIDS/NaDI (Centre de Recherche Information, Droit et Société/Namur Digital Institute - UNamur) and CRECO (Centre de Recherche sur l'Etat et la Constitution - UCLouvain).

She is also a member of the Board of Directors of ADANam (Association des Anciens de la Faculté de Droit de l'UNamur).