Academic Position : Professor of Law - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Civil and commercial law, contract law, law of security interests, tort law); Visiting Professor, Universities of Montreal (2007), Waseda (Tokyo, 2011), Oxford (2013)

Education : Agrégation des Facultés de droit (2001); Université d’Aix-Marseille (Doctorat en droit privé - 1999; DEA de droit privé - 1994); Institut de droit des affaires d'Aix-en-Provence (DESS de juriste d’affaires international - 1993)

Experience as counsel:

International arbitration proceedings under the aegis of the ICC and legal opinions on French law issues before the courts of France, England & Wales, and the United States (joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, mergers and acquisitions, agency, franchising, supply agreements, distribution agreements, telecommunication, media and new technologies, service agreements, and professional liability matters)

Experience as arbitrator:

Chair or member of the tribunal in domestic and international proceedings, ad hoc or conducted under the aegis of the ICC, AFA, Franco-German Chamber of Commerce (CFACI), International Arbitration Center of Paris (CAIP), and Arbitration and Mediation Center of Paris (CMAP)

Publications:

• L’abus dans le contrat : essai d’une théorie [Abuse of right, Unfair contractual terms and Duty of good faith] (LGDJ, 2000)

• "La solidarité passive des parties envers l'arbitre," note following Cass. civ. 1ère, 1 Feb. 2017, 2017(4) Cahiers de l'Arbitrage / Paris J. of Int’l Arb. 709

• "La responsabilité de l’arbitre," 2017(4) Rev. arb. 1123

• "La nouvelle clause compromissoire dans les groupes de contrats," 2017(1) Cahiers de l'Arbitrage / Paris J. of Int’l Arb. 47

• "La révision du contrat par l'arbitre à la lumière de l'article 1195 du Code civil," 2017(1) Rev. arb. 51

• "Responsabilité d'un centre d'arbitrage pour nullité de la sentence," note following Tribunal de grande instance de Nanterre, 1 July 2010, 2011(2) Cahiers de l'Arbitrage / Paris J. of Int’l Arb. 401

• "Qu'est-ce qu'une 'clause' abusive ?," Droit et Patrimoine, June 2010, at 106

• "Médiation, arbitrage et expertise, état et perspective dans l'Océan indien - rapport de synthèse," Les Petites Affiches, 3 Dec. 2009, No. 241, at 53