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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

French Judgment on Article 5(1) of the Brussels I Regulation, Part IV

March 23, 2008/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

On March 5, 2008, the French supreme court for private matters (Cour de cassation) confirmed

First issue of 2008’s Journal du Droit International

March 13, 2008/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The first issue of French Journal du Droit International (also known as Clunet) will be released shortly. It contains four articles dealing with conflict issues. The first is authored by

Fourth Issue of 2007’s Revue Critique de Droit International Privé

March 8, 2008/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The last issue of Revue Critique de Droit International Privé for 2007 was just released. It contains two articles dealing with conflict issues. The first is authored by Fabien Marchadier who lectures at the Law Faculty of Limoges University. It discusses the Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights to the Efficacy of the […]

International Reach of French Attachments

March 2, 2008/2 Comments/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

Can attachments reach foreign bank accounts? For the French, the answer had always been clearly negative, until the French supreme court for private matters (Cour de cassation) held in a judgment of 14 February 2008 that a French attachment could reach a bank account in Monte Carlo. In this case, a creditor had carried out […]

French Muslims Getting Divorced Back Home

February 12, 2008/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

In 2007, the French supreme court for private matters (Cour de cassation) ruled five times on the recognition in France of Islamic divorces obtained in Algeria (judgments of 10 July 2007, 19 September 2007, 17 October 2007, 31 October 2007) or in Morocco (judgment of 22 May 2007). Even by the standard of a civil […]

New Law on International Adoption in Spain

January 17, 2008/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The Spanish Parliament has adopted a new statute on international adoption on 28 December 2007.

New French Books on the Conflict of Laws

January 13, 2008/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

For long, scholars interested in the French conflict of laws had to refer to a few traditional books, in particular the treaty of Batiffol and Lagarde (8th edition 1993), but also the manuals of Loussouarn and Bourel (9th edition 2007, with professor Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières), of Pierre Mayer (9th edition 2007, with professor Vincent Heuzé), […]

Fourth issue of 2007’s Journal du Droit International

December 20, 2007/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The fourth issue of the French Journal du Droit International (Clunet) has been released. It contains three articles dealing with private international law issues (the table of contents in French can be found

Flying to California to Bypass the French Ban on Surrogacy – Update

December 6, 2007/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

A few weeks ago, I wrote a

New Site on Comparative Conflicts

November 28, 2007/in /by Gilles Cuniberti

The Section on Private International Law of the French

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