Aurelien Bouayad is lecturer at Sciences Po Paris Law School, specialized in Environmental Law and Environmental Justice. He is also researcher and lecturer at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Aurelien holds a PhD from Sciences po Paris (2021); he also received a M.A. in Law from Sciences Po Paris (2011), a M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from EHESS (2012), and a B.A. in Philosophy from Paris-Sorbonne (2012).

Aurelien was a Visiting Fellow with the STS Program at the Harvard Kennedy School (Fall 2013), and a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at SOAS in London (Spring 2014). He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro (2016-2017).

His doctoral research, under the supervision of Professor Horatia Muir Watt, explored the legal protection of minority rights in cases related to environmental issues. He examines in particular the processes involved in the treatment of cultural alterity in adjudication (and notably the role of anthropological expertise).

At Sciences Po Law School, Aurelien is the co-lecturer and scientific coordinator of the "Environmental Justice and Ecological Transition" clinical program.

• Jeremy Perelman, Aurélien Bouayad, Anaïs Morin Guerry. Les cliniques juridiques : vecteurs d’innovation de l’enseignement du droit de la transition écologique. Revue internationale de droit économique, 2024, t.XXXVII (2), pp.99-104. ⟨10.3917/ride.372.0099⟩. ⟨hal-04625697⟩
• Aurélien Bouayad. Cultural Expertise and Indigenous Ecologies. Livia Holden (ed.). Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights, 1, Routledge, pp.275-287, 2023, 9781003167075. ⟨10.4324/9781003167075-29⟩. ⟨hal-04224254⟩
• Aurélien Bouayad. Law and the ecology of others : a socio-legal inquiry into ecological controversies. Law. Institut d'études politiques de Paris - Sciences Po, 2021. English. ⟨NNT : 2021IEPP0049⟩. ⟨tel-03697301⟩
• Aurélien Bouayad. Wild rice protectors: An Ojibwe odyssey. Environmental Law Review, 2020, 22 (1), pp.25 - 42. ⟨10.1177/1461452920912909⟩. ⟨hal-03260279⟩
• Aurélien Bouayad. The Cactus and the Anthropologist: The Evolution of Cultural Expertise on the Entheogenic Use of Peyote in the United States. Laws, 2019, 8 (2), pp.12. ⟨10.3390/laws8020012⟩. ⟨hal-03260278⟩
• Aurélien Bouayad. Law and Ecological Conflicts: The Case of the Sacred Cow in India. Socio-Legal Review, 2016, 12 (2), pp.105 - 121. ⟨hal-03275576⟩