Gilles Cuniberti

James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law (Fall 2011)

Office:	435 West 116th Street Jerome Greene Hall, Room 926 New York NY 10027
Tel:	212-854-3264
Email:	gcunib@law.columbia.edu

Education

• Paris VII (Denis Diderot) University, “Licence” (B.A.), Applied Foreign Languages (English & German)
• Oxford University (Trinity College), Paris-Oxford Doctoral Program Scholar
• Panthéon-Sorbonne University, “Maîtrise” (J.D.), with Honors
• Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Masters Degree in Private International Law, with Honors
• Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Doctorate in Law “Conservatory Measures Regarding Assets Situated Abroad," Highest Honors, First Prize, the French Centre for Comparative Law
• Yale Law School, New Haven, LL.M.

Biography
Gilles Cuniberti is the Professor of Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Luxembourg. Prior to joining the University of Luxembourg, he taught at the Faculty of Law of Paris Val-de-Marne University and practiced on a part-time basis in the Paris office of a leading English firm. He was also a visiting faculty or a guest lecturer at various universities in Europe, the United States and Asia.

His primary teaching and research interests are the conflict of laws, international litigation and arbitration and international commercial law. He is the author of three books and numerous articles published in French, English, Italian and Spanish. He is also a regular contributor to the blog conflictoflaws.net. He has been involved in legislative work, including as an expert for the European Commission for drafting European legislation on cross border litigation.

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.

Publications

• Ius Commune Casebook on the Conflict of Laws (Editor, with M. Nioche - under contract).
• Interim Relief (with M. Nioche and L. Cadiet) in C.H. van Rhee and P. Oberhammer (ed.), Ius Commune Casebook on Civil Procedure (Forthcoming 2012).
• Enhancing Judicial Reputation through Legal Transplant – Estoppel Travels to France, forthcoming, Am. J. Comp. L. (2012).