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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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Ubertazzi on Kate Provence Pictures

September 27, 2012/3 Comments/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Benedetta Ubertazzi is a Full-Tenured Assistant Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Macerata, Italy and a Fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The publication of topless photographs of Britain’s likely future queen Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge (hereinafter: Kate Middleton or the Duchess), by certain newspapers in several EU countries – such […]

Muir Watt on Kate Provence Pictures

September 27, 2012/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Horatia Muir Watt is a professor of law at Sciences-po Paris Law School. Cachez ce sein…It seems to me that this case – which is perhaps less intrinsically interesting, even from a conflict of laws perspective, than other recent instances in which the cross-border exercise of the freedom of press is challenged in the name of […]

Kate Provence Pictures: Online Symposium

September 27, 2012/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Two weeks ago, French tabloid Closer published photos of Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton taking the sun on the terrasse of a Chateau in Provence this summer, including pictures of the latter appearing topless.  The Royal couple has since then initiated proceedings in France, both civil and criminal against the publisher of the tabloid. […]

Deemed Service and the Hague Service Convention under German Law

September 24, 2012/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

See this post of Peter Bert on

Third Issue of 2012’s Revue Critique de Droit International Prive

September 20, 2012/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The third issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé will soon be released. It contains three articles and several casenotes. In the first article,

French Court Issues Injunction over Kate Topless Photos

September 18, 2012/3 Comments/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Couvrez ce sein que je ne saurais voir Par de pareils objets les âmes sont blessées … A French court in Nanterrre has issued

Hague Conference Seeks New Secretary General

September 17, 2012/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The Hague Conference is seeking to recruit its next Secretary General. The Hague Conference on Private International Law, the world’s leading organisation for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law based in The Hague, the Netherlands, is looking for an outstanding lawyer to fill on 1 July 2013, the post of Secretary […]

Shill on Judgment Arbitrage in the United States

September 14, 2012/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Gregory H. Shill, who is visiting assistant professor at Hofstra law school, has posted

Marshall on the Proper Law of the Contract

September 13, 2012/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Brooke Adele Marshall, who is an associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, has published

French Conference on the Future of European Insolvency Law

September 11, 2012/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The Law Faculty of Rouen will host a

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