Iris Nguyen Duy

Iris Nguyen Duy is a Professor at the Department of Law, School of Business and Law, University of Agder. She holds a PhD in Public Law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and has extensive experience as a researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on constitutional law, comparative public law, parliaments, democracy, judicial review, administrative law, and digital governance. She leads the Comparative and Public Law research group at UiA and is Deputy Secretary General of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL-AIDC).

Education: Joint Master in Advanced Studies in Comparative Law (DEA de droit comparé) from Université Paris 1 & Paris 2; PhD in Public Law (Université Paris 1). Research interests include constitutional democracy, open government, and digital disinformation. She is a member of multiple international research networks, including DEFIDEM (citizen participation in governance) and OLA-Europe (local autonomy).

Teaching includes courses on constitutional law, human rights, legal history, and comparative law. Key publications span constitutional frameworks, parliamentary sovereignty, and digital governance challenges. She has advised on legal reforms related to local democracy and digital surveillance in Norway and Europe.

Labs/Teams: Active in DEFIDEM, a transdisciplinary project on citizen engagement in policymaking, and contributes to constitutional studies at UiO and UiB. Her work bridges legal theory with practical governance challenges in democratic societies.