Passainte Ragab (M2 Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Research Associate under Prof. Dr. Ralf Michaels


Main Fields of Research

Decolonial Comparative Law, Comparative Law, Franco-Egyptian Legal Relations

Vita

Passainte Ragab studied law at the École de Droit de la Sorbonne au Caire (formerly the Institut de Droit des Affaires Internationales) from 2019 to 2023, earning a double degree in French and Egyptian law from Cairo University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, respectively. In 2023, she obtained her master 1 in business law from the École de Droit de la Sorbonne au Caire and a completed a semester abroad at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. In 2024, she obtained her master 2 in comparative law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she was a recipient of the Rifaa Al Tahtawi Scholarship. Her master’s thesis discussed the coloniality embedded within legal transplants through a comparative analysis of Franco-Egyptian legal relations and the broader context of Franco-Arabo-Islamic dynamics.

She began working at the Institute as a research associate on the Decolonial Comparative Law project under Professor Dr Ralf Michaels in November 2024. She is writing her doctoral dissertation on the topic of Franco-Egyptian colonial relations in the legal field under his supervision.

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