Stephane Mechoulan
- Courses6
- Reviews40
- School: University of Toronto
- Campus: St. George Campus
- Department: Economics
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Location:
Toronto, ON - Dates at University of Toronto: June 2003 - June 2009
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Biography
University of Toronto St. George Campus - Economics
Provides organizations with customized training in the field of cognitive biases and mitigating their impact. En/ Fr.
Higher Education
Stephane
Mechoulan, JD, PhD
Halifax, Canada Area
I am an applied empirical micro-economist and legal scholar. My academic research primarily investigates the unintended effects of policy changes.
I organize workshops and provide customized training in the field of cognitive biases and their impact on decision making in management settings and in the judicial context. Building on over thirty years of research in psychology and behavioral economics, these workshops help participants identify the most common categories of errors, pitfalls and distortions chiefly responsible for poor decisions. Then, participants learn actionable preventive measures and techniques to reduce bias and achieve better decisions at individual and team levels. These interactive workshops utilize lectures, illustrative case studies, and role play allowing participants to fully embrace and practice concepts.
Expertise:
University Teaching (BA/ MA/ MPA/ PhD levels)
Executive Education
Customized workplace education and workshops
Research
Causal Inference Methodologies
Effective Writing
Law
Bilingual En/Fr
Experience
Dalhousie University
Associate Professor
Stephane worked at Dalhousie University as a Associate Professor
Nova Scotia Court of Appeal
Judicial Law Clerk
Stephane worked at Nova Scotia Court of Appeal as a Judicial Law Clerk
University of Toronto
Assistant Professor
Stephane worked at University of Toronto as a Assistant Professor
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Visiting Scholar
Stephane worked at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law as a Visiting Scholar
(Inactive)
Lawyer
Stephane worked at (Inactive) as a Lawyer
Education
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Doctor of Law - JD
Law
Northwestern University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Economics
Ecole d'Economie de Paris
Master's degree
Economics
M2 (ex DEA)
Publications
The case against the face-veil: A European perspective
International Journal of Constitutional Law
In 2010, France banned the wearing of face-veils in public. Anglo-liberal scholars criticized the move vehemently. France succeeded in confusing the European Court of Human Rights into accepting the proposition that the visibility of the face is key to the so-called vivre ensemble. However, such arguments steer our attention toward the material implication of the practice of veiling while obscuring the genuine driver behind the prohibition, i.e. the metaphysical harm caused by publicly displaying an ideology supporting a competing vision of the good. This is corroborated by those attempts to ban the burkini in the summer of 2016 in some French municipalities. The surge of face-veil bans and condemnations of the practice of face-veiling across Europe underscore the existence of a common sensitive nerve: the face-veil appears to defy the minimal amount of cohesiveness necessary for the preservation of collective identity within European culture. In turn, this article provides a legal articulation for the ban that does not need the tenets of French republicanism as support. Drawing from anthropology, sociology, and political philosophy, I elucidate how, in this haphazard concept of vivre ensemble, one must read in a legitimate injunction to abide by the tacit, unbending rules of membership inherent to a national community.
