SONIA DESMOULIN-CANSELIER

Biography

Sonia Desmoulin (Desmoulin-Canselier) is a research fellow at the CNRS, holds a PhD in private law and is attached to the Law and Social Change Laboratory (UMR 6297 Nantes University/CNRS) where she is responsible for the InnovSanté Axis (Technological Innovations, Health and Biopower). Her research focuses on the interactions between law and science and technology, exploring both practical issues (legal framework of emerging technologies, such as nanomaterials, deep brain stimulation, judicial use of brain images, scope of biotechnology legislation, uses of algorithmic tools and artificial intelligence) and theoretical issues (legal reasoning and methods at work in technical regulations, use of scientific concepts in the legal field). Since her PhD Thesis, she has also developed an important expertise in the field of animal protection law, animal health law and animal welfare law. She published several articles on this topic and edited two special issues in the Revue Semestrielle de droit animalier (the only French Review dealing with Animal Law). In her research, she uses multiple methodological approaches and is frequently involved in multidisciplinary projects.