News
Anniversary of the International Commercial Chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal
News - 18/12/2023
The anniversary symposium of the International Commercial Chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, 5 years on, which I had the privilege of closing, demonstrated the extent to which this body, both at the Court of Appeal and at the Paris Commercial Court level, has responded to the internationalization [...]
Hungary and Europe
News - 30/11/2023
On November 16 and 17, 2023, I had the pleasure of visiting Budapest at the invitation of the Otto de Hasbourg-Lorraine Foundation. [...]
Exciting discussions
News - 25/10/2023
The ACE Congress, held this year in Toulouse, gave rise to some fascinating debates. After President Raskin's masterful speech, I had the pleasure of taking part in a round-table discussion, perfectly moderated by Anne-Cécile Sarfati, with my colleagues Clémentine Bardon and Xavier [...]
Jean-Paul Gauzès, the great European
News - 27/09/2023
Jean-Paul Gauzès passed away on September 13. His passing leaves us with no words to describe his presence, his warm voice, his inimitable way of telling anecdotes, his immense legal, economic, political and literary culture and, last but not least, his kindness and benevolence. [...]
Sad news
News - 25/07/2023
Alex Marquardt, founding partner of the Paris office of the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in 2000, passed away on July 21. His sudden death comes as a shock. Alex was an immense and brilliant lawyer, an internationally recognized arbitrator and an expert in Common Law as well as in French, [...]
ABA Congress in Paris
News - 23/07/2023
I greatly enjoyed participating in the American Bar Association Conference organized in July 2023 in Paris by the ABA Cross-Border Institute. Apart from the keynote speech (see below) that I had to give, I was very pleased along with Alexia Sedykh of the French ministry of Justice and Alexander [...]
July 14th Parade 2023
News - 14/07/2023
On this 14 July 2023, a salute to our army and to all those who risk their lives in defence of the nation and their fellow citizens, and our common Security in Europe. [...]
Mardi du Grand Continent conference at the Sorbonne on June 20, 2023
News - 03/07/2023
"During this conference, I drew a parallel between my youth "after the end of civilisation", referring to Nazism, and today's youth, particularly the students at the Ecole Normale Supérieure who made up the audience, drawing their attention to the risk that they were "on the eve of the end of [...]