Postdoctoral Fellow
Lucie.Ducarre@uib.no
Lucie Margot Ducarre is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism and the Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Bergen. Ducarre is affiliated with the PROTECT project, an interdisciplinary project focusing on the protection of children’s rights in the context of crime prevention. Her research interests include children’s rights, neurodiversity and autistic children’s rights, participatory research, child protection, criminology, and education.
Publications
Articles
- Ducarre, L. M., Gröning, L., & Øverland, K. (2025). Autism in Norwegian Criminal Justice: A Thematic Analysis of Preventive Detention Cases Against Children. CrimRxiv. https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.66ba6058
- Ducarre, L. M. (2024). De-centring inclusion: Discussing the meaning and place of inclusive education in international and European law through the case of children with autism. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 42(4), 319-339. https://doi.org/10.1177/09240519241284448
- Ducarre, L.M. (2024). Redefining the Right to Quality Education for Autistic Children Through a Neurodiverse Perspective. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 26(1), p. 366–379.
- Ducarre, L. M. (2023). Redefining Inclusive Education for Autistic Children in International and European Law. The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 31(2), 326-351. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-31020007
- Ducarre, L.M. (2023). Informing Conceptual Issues Related to Autistic Children’s Right to Education Through a Literature Review of Their Lived Experience. Rev J Autism Dev Disord 12, 23–39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-023-00375-5
Book Chapters
- Ducarre, L. M. (2020). French Children’s Literature and Autism. In A. Baverstock, R. Bradford, and M. Gonzalez (eds.), Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books. Routledge, 278-318.
Book Reviews
- Lucie M. D. (2023). Advanced Introduction to Children’s Rights, Gamze Erdem Türkelli and Wouter Vandenhole, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 37, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebad016
Education
- PhD in Law (University of Bergen, Norway, 2024)
- Master’s in Law (University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, France, 2015)
- MA in Publishing (Kingston University, UK, 2017)
- Graduate Diploma in International Studies and Academic English (King’s College London, UK, 2013)
Projects
- PROTECT
- (Previously also DIMENSIONS and CHILDCRIM)
Get to know Lucie
What are you working on right now?
Currently, I am conducting a qualitative analysis of the courts’ evaluations of the child’s best interests in decisions of forced placement in child protection institutions.
Are you a cat or dog person, or both, or neither?
Definitely a cat person, but if I had the opportunity to have a dog, I’m pretty sure I would become both since I love animals in general.
If you had to choose a different field, what would it be?
Psychology or education. Or publishing. Or film and TV. Or ethology.
What’s the last book you could not put down?
“A Secret History” by Donna Tartt. Not the last one, but the one I’ve re-read the highest number of times. Didn’t know I would one day become an ‘academic’ myself when I first picked it up 20 years ago or so.
What is the most outdated piece of tech you still use regularly?
An old-fashioned alarm clock. Definitely not a morning person.
Updated Autumn 2025