International Custody Case between the U.S. and Brazil
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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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Related Actions and Jurisdiction Clauses
/in /by Gilles CunibertiOn 19 June 2008, the Supreme Court of Luxembourg for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) delivered a judgment in an interesting case involving related actions and a jurisdiction clause. The related actions were pending before Belgian and Luxembourg courts. Bonds had been issued by a Luxembourg financial institution and sold by a Belgian […]
Recognition of a U.S. Judgment in Brazil
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Fourth Issue of 2008’s Revue Critique de Droit International Privé
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe fourth issue of the Revue Critique de Droit International Privé was just released. It contains two articles. Unfortunately, none of them comes with an abstract in English. The first is a presentation of the Rome I Regulation by emeritus Professor Paul Lagarde and Aline Tenenbaum, who lectures at the Faculty of Law of Paris […]
Retaliation in Alien Tort Statute Litigation?
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Jurisdiction in Contract Matters in Brazil
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First Issue of 2009’s Journal du Droit International
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe first issue of French Journal du Droit International (also known as Clunet) will shortly be released. It contains several articles dealing with conflict issues. The topic of the first two is the 2008 Rome I Regulation on the law governing contractual obligations. First, Hughes Kenfack, a professor at Toulouse University, wonders whether the Regulation […]
West Tankers: Online Symposium
/7 Comments/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe European Court of Justice has delivered its judgment in the West Tankers case. This decision was much awaited. It raises critical issues, in particular in respect of the actual scope of European civil procedure, the consequences of the principle of mutual trust and the tolerance of the European Union with regard common law procedural devices. In the […]