Sylvie Delacroix is a reader in legal theory and ethics in UCL Laws. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, followed by a one year post-doc in Trinity College, Cambridge. In 2004-05 she was elected to the Evelyn Green Davis Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard), where she completed her Legal Norms and normativity: an essay in genealogy, which won the Peter Birks second prize for outstanding legal scholarship.

In 2010 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize to pursue her research on the intersection between law and ethics. She was the founding director of the UCL Centre for Ethics and Law.

Sylvie’s current research interests focus on the impact of habits, expertise and professional habituation on moral judgments. The impact of the latter has never been studied empirically, and she hopes to remedy that with the help of Virtual Reality Technology.

She loves teaching Law and Ethics to both undergraduate and graduate students and one of the main aims of her course is to raise their awareness of the factors that contribute to the discrepancy between abstract ethical stands and actual behaviour.

Sylvie’s papers are available here.