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
Post Doctoral Position in Brussels
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe Unit of Private International Law of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) will recruit a post doctoral researcher in Private International Law, starting in September 2010, for a duration of 12 to 18 months. The researcher will work on a project funded by the European Commission on
French Conference on Private Military Contractors
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe Faculty of law of the University of Clermont-Ferrand will host a
Book Reviews, Criminal Libel, and the Jurisdiction of French Courts
/3 Comments/in /by Gilles CunibertiWhat are the risks of facing a criminal trial in France after writing an academic book review in English? You may think that if the book was written in English by a scholar who neither lives nor works in France, and if the reviewer is himself neither French, nor living or working in France, that could […]
First Issue of 2010’s Journal du Droit International
/1 Comment/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe first issue of French Journal du droit international (Clunet) for 2010 was just released. It includes three articles, but one only on private international law. It is authored by Isabelle Barrière Brousse, who lectures at Aix Marseille University, and discusses the Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on Private international law (Le traité de Lisbonne et […]
French Case on Law Governing Ownership of Paintings
/4 Comments/in /by Gilles CunibertiOn February 3rd, 2010, the French Cour de cassation delivered a
Dallah, Renvoi and Transnational Law
/2 Comments/in /by Gilles CunibertiIn December, three members of the UK Supreme Court granted leave to appeal in Dallah v. Pakistan. The case concerns the enforcement of an ICC arbitral award in the UK. In a nutshell, the Ministry of Religious Affairs of Pakistan had negotiated with Saudi company Dallah a contract whereby Dallah would provide services (building accomodation in particular) for Pakistani […]
Annual Survey of French PIL of E-Commerce
/in /by Gilles CunibertiFor several years, Professor Marie-Elodie Ancel (Paris Est Creteil Val de Marne University, formerly Paris 12) has published an annual survey on French private international law of E-commerce in the French monthly law review Communication, Commerce Electronique. The survey for 2009 has just been published in the first issue of the review for 2010. It discusses a variety […]
Haiti Earthquake and Intercountry Adoption
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe Secretariat of the Hague Conference has posted an