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
Second Issue of 2007’s Journal du Droit International
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe second issue of the French Journal du Droit International for 2007 was released a few days ago. As a journal covering the whole spectrum of international law, it contains articles on topics related to public international law, European Union law and European human rights. For a complete table of content in French, see
French Judgment on Article 5 (1) b of the Brussels I Regulation, Part III
/in /by Gilles CunibertiOn March 27, 2007, the French supreme court for private matters (
Liberalization of Enforcement of US Judgments in France
/5 Comments/in /by Gilles CunibertiIn a previous
Is the Brussels Convention Compliant with Article 6 ECHR?
/1 Comment/in /by Gilles CunibertiThis is the interesting question that the French supreme court for private matters (Cour de cassation) addressed in a judgement of March 6, 2007. The argument was raised in respect of the rule allowing to seek a decision of enforceability of the foreign judgement ex parte. Article 34 of the
First Issue of 2007’s Revue Critique de Droit International privé
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe last issue of the French Revue Critique de Droit International Privé has just been released. It contains two articles, written in French. The first deals with immigration law, which has traditionally been regarded as part of private international law in France. It is authored by professor Dominique Turpin and presents the last legislative reform […]
French Judgements on Article 5(1)(b) of the Brussels I Regulation
/4 Comments/in /by Gilles CunibertiIn 2006, the French supreme court for private matters (
First Issue of 2007’s Journal du Droit International
/in /by Gilles CunibertiThe last issue of the French Journal du Droit International was released a few weeks ago. It contains two articles, written in French, which deal with conflict issues. The first is authored by Belgian Professor
The Concept of Enforceability
/in /by Gilles CunibertiNotionally, what is enforceability? When the forum declares a foreign judgement enforceable, what does it mean? Does it mean that the foreign judgement actually enters in the legal system of the forum as such, and remains a foreign judgement? Or does it mean that a judgement of the forum carrying the substance of the foreign […]