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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

Entries by Gilles Cuniberti

ECJ Judgment in West Tankers

February 10, 2009/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The European Court of Justice delivered its

Respect for Algerian/Moroccan Children’s Origin

February 6, 2009/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

I am grateful to

No Adoption in France for Algerian/Moroccan Children

February 6, 2009/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Children from Algeria or Morocco may not be adopted in France. This is because under French law, the law of the child controls the issue of whether adoption is possible at all. Thus, children from countries where adoption is unknown are unadoptable. As there is no adoption in Islam, children from countries such as Algeria and […]

Uruguay – Case on Carrier’s Liability

February 5, 2009/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

I am grateful to

Reference from Irish Supreme Court to ECJ: Same Proceedings Pending in a non European State

February 4, 2009/5 Comments/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

I am grateful to 

Assistant in Private International Law in Luxembourg

January 18, 2009/3 Comments/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The Faculty of Law of the University of Luxembourg is seeking to recruit an Assistant (PhD student) in Private International Law, Comparative Law or Civil Law. This is a distinct position from the one I reported on

Jurisdiction to Enjoin a Foreign Website in the EU

January 13, 2009/1 Comment/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Which court has jurisdiction to enjoin a foreign based website to carry on illegal activities in the forum? On November 6, 2008, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) held that French courts had jurisdiction to enjoin a company incorporated in Malta from carrying on illicit activities through a website, as the site […]

American Surrogacy and Parenthood in France: Update

January 7, 2009/1 Comment/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

In

Gambazzi v. Daimler Chrysler, Part 10: Monte Carlo

December 21, 2008/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

And then there were ten! The Soltzenberg – Gambazzi case had already been litigated in

AG Opinion in Gambazzi

December 18, 2008/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Advocate General Kokott has delivered her

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