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
PILAGG/LSE Round Table Seminar
/in /by Gilles CunibertiPILAGG (SciencesPo) / Transnational Law Project (LSE) Tuesday 19 November 2013 Private Citizens of the World. Citizenship beyond the State: Past, Present and Future. Speaker: Prof. Karen Knop, University of Toronto (Law) Discussants: Dr. Annabel Brett, University of Cambridge (History) Dr. Floris De Witte, LSE (Law) Date & time: Tuesday 19 November 2013, 16:00 – […]
Explanatory Report on the 2007 Hague Child Support Convention
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe Hague Conference on Private International Law has
The ELI-UNIDROIT Project: From Transnational Principles to European Rules of Civil Procedure – 1st Exploratory Workshop
/in /by Gilles CunibertiBy Matthias Weller Matthias Weller holds the Chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Private International Law at EBS University for Economics and Law, Wiesbaden, Germany. On 18 and 19 October 2013, the European Law Institute (ELI) and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) invited to a “First Explanatory Workshop“ on the […]
Third Issue of 2013’s Revue Critique Droit International Privé
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe last issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé is out. It contains three articles and several casenotes. In the first article, Eric Agostini (University of Bordeaux) revisits the doctrine of renvoi (Le mécanisme du renvoi). The English abstract reads: The mechanism known as renvoi supposes, as a prerequisite, that the forum’s choice of […]
Two academic events in Ferrara concerning the Succession Regulation
/in /by Gilles CunibertiOn 8 November 2013 the Department of Law of the University of Ferrara, in cooperation with the Council of Notaries of Ferrara, will host a workshop (in English) and a roundtable (in Italian) on issues relating to Regulation No 650/2012 on successions. The
ECJ Rules on Irreconcilable Judgments Given in the Same State of Origin
/2 Comments/in /by Gilles CunibertiOn 26 September 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in
Sciences Po PILAGG Series, 2013-2014
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe seminars on
Gay Marriage: France Blacklists 11 Nationalities (Updated)
/15 Comments/in /by Gilles CunibertiIn May 2013, France adopted a law allowing gay marriage. The statute confirmed France’ traditional choice of law rule according to which the law of the nationality of each spouse applies to the substantive validity of marriage (Civil Code, Art. 202-1, para. 1). However, in order to avoid confining the new legislation to couples of nationals […]