Room	: F11
Tel	: 01223 3(30092)

Room

: FC25

Murray Edwards

M.A. (Cantab.), Ph.D. (Paris II)

College Lecturer (Murray Edwards College)

Dr Turenne's research develops comparative perspectives on European judiciaries and civil liberties in particular. She is engaged in projects on judicial independence in parallel with some research on the ECJ judicial system. She is currently writing, with Shimon Shetreet (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), the second edition of Shetreet’s Judges on Trial: a Study of the Appointment and the Accountability of the English Judiciary (Cambridge University Press, expected publication in 2012).

Dr Turenne completed her Law studies at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas following one year in Philosophy (literary preparatory class). In the course of her studies, she was an Erasmus student then a research scholar at Oxford University under distinct bilateral and national awards schemes (Entente Cordiale, Lavoisier-Oxford, Allocation Mobilite Internationale CNRS). Dr Turenne taught in numerous places (Paris XIII, University College London, Birmingham) at both undergraduate and graduate levels before coming to Cambridge in 2003, where until recently she co-ordinated the Erasmus and the Double Maitrise programmes within the Law Faculty. She was Neil Allam/Clifford Chance Lecturer in Law at the Faculty between August 2003 and October 2010. She is a Fellow in Law at Murray Edwards College – formerly New Hall – and acts as a Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies in Law there. She is also acts as Director of Studies for the LL.M at Hughes Hall.