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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

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Riles on Regulatory Arbitrage

October 10, 2013/1 Comment/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Annelise Riles (Cornell Law School) has posted

Coyle on Judgments Reciprocity

October 9, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

John Coyle (University of North Carolina School of Law) has posted

Gascon on Povse: a Presumption of ECHR Compliance when Applying the European Civil Procedure Rules?

October 8, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Fernando Gascón Inchausti  is Professor of Law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid On the basis of the provisions of Articles 11(8) and 42(2) of the Brussels IIa Regulation, the Austrian courts, after a long and tortuous process, ended up ordering the Povse child’s return to Italy, considering that the enforcement system without exequatur introduced by […]

Povse v. Austria: Taking Direct Effect Seriously?

October 7, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Dr. Rafael Arenas García is Professor of Private International Law at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Perhaps one of the most difficult questions in International Law is the relationship between international conventions. States must comply with the obligations established in the treaties they are bound by. All the parties to the treaty are entitled to require […]

Muir Watt on Abolition of Exequatur and Human Rights

October 5, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Horatia Muir Watt is Professor of Law at Sciences Po Law School I. Framing the child-return issue. Several recent cases handed down by the two European Courts appear to be opening new vistas for conflicts of laws, in which human rights play a large part.  The cases are well-known (ECJ/CJUE Aguirre v Pelz 2010; ECtHR […]

ECJ Rules on Jurisdiction for Copyright Infringement

October 4, 2013/1 Comment/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Yesterday, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in

Commentary of the Succession Regulation

October 3, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The first commentary of the European Regulation No 650/2012 of 4 July 2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession has been published by Bruylant. The book is conceived as a commentary, […]

Online Symposium: Abolition of Exequatur and Human Rights

October 2, 2013/6 Comments/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

In June, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Povse v. Austria that the abolition of exequatur was compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights, and that the mechanism introduced by the Brussels IIa Regulation was not dysfunctional from the perspective of the Convention. In December 2010, the Court of  Justice of the European […]

Jurcys on Economic Analysis of Party Autonomy in Family Law

October 1, 2013/3 Comments/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Paulius Jurcys (Kyushu University Graduate School of Law) has posted

Italian Book on the Succession Regulation

September 30, 2013/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

 The Italian publisher Giuffrè has recently published

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