Anne-Charlène Bezzina is a constitutional law scholar, Doctor of Public Law (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2012), and Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Rouen since 2015. She has been teaching at Sciences Po Paris since 2023 and will join CEVIPOF in 2025 as an Associate Researcher.

Her research focuses on constitutional law and political life, approached from both historical and contemporary perspectives. It is structured around several major themes: political institutions and constitutional justice, the evolution of the Fifth Republic, the relationship between constitutional texts and political practices, parliamentary life, the question of trust in political institutions, public transparency, as well as issues related to the rule of law, elections and electoral systems, and both national and territorial public action.

Her habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), currently in progress, is entitled Constitutional Procedural Law: Constructing a Theory. She is also conducting research on social adherence to political institutions.

Academically, Anne-Charlène Bezzina pursued her entire university career at Université Paris 1 (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD), where she also held positions as teaching assistant, ATER, and postdoctoral researcher (2007–2015). She further served as research officer for the Union centriste parliamentary group on constitutional reform (2007), interned as a legal assistant at the Constitutional Council (2008), and has provided legal consultancy for various institutions and law firms since 2015.

At the University of Rouen Normandie, she develops her teaching and research in public and constitutional law. At Sciences Po (Paris), she teaches courses in Political Institutions (undergraduate, year 1), Contemporary Constitutional Law (undergraduate, year 2), and, starting in January 2025, Law of Transparency and Public Ethics (Collège de droit).

She is also a member of the Association française de droit constitutionnel (AFDC) and of the Observatory of Public Policies in Times of Pandemic.

Premier prix de thèse du Sénat 2013
Prix de thèse de l’Institut Universitaire Varenne 2013

Essais, ouvrages généralistes
• Cette constitution qui nous protège, XO, 2024.
• Cinquième République : Anatomie d’un régime en crise, Les arènes, 2025.
Ouvrages universitaires
• Introduction au droit constitutionnel, in Concours d’adjoints aux cadres hospitaliers, Hachette supérieur, 2025.
• Textes constitutionnels et politiques, Paris, PUF, coll. « Thémis », 2019.
• Les questions et les moyens soulevés d’office par le Conseil constitutionnel, Paris, Dalloz, coll. « Bibliothèque parlementaire et constitutionnelle », 2014.