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About Gilles Cuniberti

Gilles Cuniberti is a professor of law at the University of Luxembourg. Previously, he taught for 10 years at the Faculty of Law of Paris 12 University (Paris Val-de-Marne). His primary teaching and research interests are comparative law, conflict of laws, international arbitration and international litigation. He is a regular contributor to the Journal de Droit International (Clunet). He has been a visiting faculty at Duke Law School, Renmin University of China and Sheffield Hallam University.

He holds a Doctorate in Law from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and an LL.M. degree from Yale Law School. He was also a Paris-Oxford Doctoral Program Scholar for a year at Trinity College, Oxford. He is admitted to the Paris Bar and practiced on a part-time basis in the Paris office of a leading English firm from 1999 to 2004.

SELECTED ARTICLES:
Beyond Contract - The Case for Default Arbitration in International commercial Disputes, 32 FORDHAM INT'L L.J. 417 (2009)
Le principe de territorialité des voies d'exécution, JOURNAL DU DROIT INTERNATIONAL 2008.963
The Recognition of Judgments Lacking Reasons in Europe: Access to Justice, Foreign Court Avoidance and Efficiency, 57 INT’L & COMP. L. Q. 25 (2008)
L’apprezzamento dell’efficacia della clausola arbitrale da parte del giudice statale : un conflitto tra Italia e Francia, 21 DIRITTO COMMERCIO INTERNAZIONALE 2007.789 (with M. Winkler)

E-mail: gilles.cuniberti@conflictoflaws.net

Entries by Gilles Cuniberti

ECJ Defines Concept of International Character of Consumer Contracts

November 18, 2013/3 Comments/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

On 14 November 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in

American Association of PIL Elects New Officers

November 15, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

On 2 November 2013, the Assembly of the American Association of Private International Law (

ECJ Rules on Effect of Icelandic Legislative Moratorium on Payments in France

November 14, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

On 24 October 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in

Schultz on Postulates of Justice in Transnational Law and Private International Law Reasoning

November 13, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Thomas Schultz (Kings College London) has posted Postulates of Justice in Transnational Law and Private International Law Reasoning. A Few Simple Points (Postulats De Justice En Droit Transnational Et Raisonnements De Droit International Privé. Premier Balisage D’Un Champ D’Études) on SSRN. Certain postulates of justice that led to legal statism constitute an epistemological obstacle in […]

Fourth Issue of 2013’s Journal du Droit International

November 11, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The fourth issue of French Journal du droit international (Clunet) for 2013 was just released. It contains two articles discussing issues of private international law and several casenotes. A full table of content will soon be available

Curran on Extraterritoriality, Universal Jurisdiction, and the Challenge of Kiobel

November 8, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Vivian Grosswald Curran (University of Pittsburgh – School of Law) has posted Extraterritoriality, Universal Jurisdiction, and the Challenge of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. on SSRN. This article analyzes Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. as a point of juncture between extraterritorial and universal jurisdiction, inasmuch as it harks from two lines of case law […]

UK Supreme Court Rules on European Lis Pendens

November 7, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

On 6 November 2013, the UK Supreme Court delivered its

Lithuanian Court Asks ECJ whether Brussels Regime Forbids Recognition of Arbitral Antisuit Injunctions

November 6, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The Lithuanian Supreme Court has made a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union asking whether the Brussels Regime forbids the recognition of arbitral anti-suit injunctions. In this case, after one party initiated court proceedings in Lithuania, the other party commenced arbitral proceedings in Sweden. The arbitral tribunal found that the […]

The ECJ and ECHR Judgments on Povse and Human Rights – a Legislative Perspective

November 6, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

by Dorothea van Iterson Dorothea van Iterson is a former Counsellor of legislation, ministry of Justice of the Netherlands

Cuniberti on the New Provision of the Unidroit Principles on Contracts Infringing Mandatory Rules

November 5, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

I (University of Luxembourg) have posted A Critical Appraisal of Article 3.3.1 of the PICC on Contracts Infringing Mandatory Rules (

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