Emilie Biland-Curinier

Research Programs
- Law, norms, regulations program
- Public policy, transformations of the state program
- Work, employment, professions program
bio
Émilie Biland-Curinier combines sociology and political science to study how organizations and professional groups take part to the unequal dynamics that reshape contemporary societies. At the crossroads of critical policy analysis and socio-legal studies, she takes interest in the mechanisms that frame individuals in their family life (such as after marital separations) and in their professional careers (especially through training and hiring). Her work underlines the causes and consequences of these processes in terms of class, gender, sexual and racial hierarchies.
Over the period 2019-2024, she is a fellow of the IUF – Institut Universitaire de France – in order to accomplish a research project entitled: Minority Rights On The Ground. LGBTQ Parents And The Law From One Continent To Another.
Based on fieldwork experiences in several countries (Canada, Chile, the United States, France) and within numerous teams, her scholarship also deals with epistemology and methodology. She writes on international comparisons, multi-methods research designs, public sociology and collective scholarship.
Read her interview on her arrival at the CSO
Publications
- Family Law in Action. Divorce and Inequality in Quebec and France, UBC Press, 2023.
- Gouverner la vie privée. L’encadrement inégalitaire des séparations conjugales en France et au Québec, ENS-Editions, 2019. https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/CSO/hal-03051493
- La fonction publique territoriale, La découverte, coll. « Repères », 2019 [première édition 2012]. https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/CSO/hal-03222316
- « Are Judges Street-Level Bureaucrats ? Evidence from French and Canadian Family Courts. » (avec H. Steinmetz), Law and Social Inquiry, 2017, v. 42, n°2, p. 298-324 : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lsi.12251 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01448688
- « Government Lawyers and the Training of Senior Civil Servants: Maintaining Law at the Heart of the French State. » (avec R. Vanneuville), International Journal of the legal profession, 2012, v.19, n°1, p.29-54 : https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09695958.2013.771121
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00813927
Teaching at Sciences Po
Gender and Sexuality, research seminar, master degree in sociology<
Discrimination & Inequality, 1st year lecture, Paris campus
Gender, Sexuality & Organizations, seminar, school of public affairs (2020-2022)
Sociology of the Family, research seminar, master degree in sociology (2020-2022)
Social Relations in Public Administration, 2nd year seminar, Paris campus (2019-20)
Other activities
Career path
Since 2019
Full Professor at Sciences Po
Since 2014
Adjunct Professor at Laval University (Quebec City, Canada)
2019-2024
Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France
2014-2019
Associate Professor at the University of Rennes 2
2010-2014
Assistant Professor, Laval University (Quebec City, Canada)
Current Editorial Boards
Since 2012: Gouvernement et action publique (Presses de Sciences Po).
Since 2017: Revue française d’administration publique (ENA) - (2017-2023).
Invited Positions
Catholic University of Chile (2019 and 2022), University Paris-Dauphine (2014), University of Tampere (Finland, 2009)
education
2017: Habilitation (HDR), University of Strasbourg
2008: PhD in sociology, EHESS (with highest honors)
2004: Master degree in social sciences, ENS/EHESS (with highest honors)
2001: Master degree (1st year) in sociology, University Paris-Descartes (with highest honors)
2000-2001: Exchange student at the City University of New York (Hunter College and the Graduate Center)
1999-2004: Scholarship student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
2000: BA in sociology, University Paris-Descartes; BA in economics, University Pantheon-Sorbonne
Research Projects
- Expandroit : Expériences pandémiques du droit et de la justice : famille, travail et espace public en urgence sanitaire
- INJUVID : Injustices and Disputes: Examining the Lived Experience of the Law during the COVID-19 Crisis
- Intermédiaires du droit et parents LGBTQ+
- Minority Rights On The Ground. LGBTQ Parents And The Law From One Continent To Another
Last Publications
- Biland-Curinier, Emilie and Natacha Gally. 2021. "Fonction publique : vers un nouveau modèle ?" In Nouvelle sociologie politique de la France, ed. Thomas Frinault, Christian Le Bart and Erik Neveu, 47-58. Paris: Armand Colin. U.
- Biland-Curinier, Emilie, Nicolas Rafin and Hélène Steinmetz. 2021. "Vie privée : quand l’État rame, les femmes et les enfants écopent." Délibérée no. 12:6-12.
- Biland-Curinier, Emilie, Sibylle Gollac, Hélène Oehmichen, Nicolas Rafin and Hélène Steinmetz. 2020. "La classe, le genre et le territoire. Les inégalités procédurales dans la justice familiale." Droit et société 3 (106): 547-566.
Press Release
- Bessière, Céline, Emilie Biland-Curinier and Hélène Oehmichen. 2020. "Justice familiale : tribunaux à l'arrêt, inégalités aggravées." Dalloz Actualité, May.
- Biland-Curinier, Emilie. 2020. "Marital Separations and the (Non-) Emancipation of Women." Cogito, May.
- Biland-Curinier, Emilie. 2020. "Sépararations conjugales et (non) émancipation des femmes." Cogito, April.