Speaking engagements

Speaking engagement in the last 10 years :

  1. “A uniform European law on commercial arbitration: a bright future or a false good idea?” Presentation at the symposium organized by the French Arbitration Committee (CFA) on Convergence or divergence? Arbitration and European Union law, November 13, 2025
  2. The Law on Cross-Border Financial Technologies: Issues, Challenges and Perspectives,“ 11TH FINTECH CONFERENCE, University of Luxembourg, October 11, 2025
  3. The Legal Challenges of MNBCs, University of BurgundyOctober 2, 2025
  4. Round table on Infraestructuras de Derecho Internacional Privado y acceso transnacional a la justicia (XVIII Jornadas ASADIP 2025 Imaginario regional, resonancia global: el Derecho Internacional Privado interamericano y el escenario mundial Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), August 7, 2025
  5. Course at The Hague Academy of International Law on Monetary Interest in International Judicial and Arbitral Proceedings (July 28-August 1, 2025)
  6. Round table on Private International Law Aspects of CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), Forging Digital Money in the Tokenization Era: Reshaping Legal Tender?, III BABEL International Conference, University of Florence, May 2025
  7. Paris Arbitration Week (PAW) 2025: Moderator of the round table on Dialogue between judges: the role of the judge responsible for reviewing the arbitral award, Paris Court of Appeal, April 2025
  8. Debater at the 5th Annual Intergenerational Arbitration Seminar, Hot topics in Arbitration, NYU, Feb. 2025
  9. Freezing of funds and economic resources, international financial sanctions, conference organized by the EFE, Paris, Nov. 2024
  10. Interest (on sums of money) in the enforcement of foreign awards and decisions, paper presented to the French Committee on Private International Law, Nov. 2024, Institute of Comparative Law (Paris)
  11. Post award interest and enforcement of arbitral awards, conference on Enforcement of arbitral awards: Universalism or Exceptionalism? Paris Cité University, Sciences Po & NYU, Nov. 2024
  12. Finance and climate diplomacy, moderator, inaugural conference of the Graduate School Governance, Decisions, Transitions, Paris Cité University, Nov. 2024
  13. Exceptionalism in International Commercial Arbitration, NYU, Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law, April 2024
  14. The Use of Soft Law Rules in Addressing Damages, Pre-Vis Moot Conference in Vienna on Soft Law in Arbitration: Concept and Examples, March 2024
  15. Sanctions and Arbitration: Lessons Learned and Possible Strategies, (round table), Clyde & Co, (Paris Arbitration Week, March 2024)
  16. 6th Arbitration Author’s Rendez-vous – Discussion with G. Bermann on his book Twilight Issues in International Arbitration: latent choice of law challenges, Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris Arbitration Week, March 2024)
  17. Should a specific forum be created for purely financial damages?, Series of conferences on The overhaul of the Brussels I bis Regulation, Special jurisdiction, Court of Cassation, under the scientific direction of M.-E. Ancel and P. de Vareilles-Sommières, Jan. 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GE-fhJGXNo)
  18. Are cryptocurrencies international currencies?, Paris Panthéon-Assas University and the Banque de France, Dec. 2023
  19. Organization of a Conference on the digital euro; presentation on “Conflicts of laws and digital euros,” Faculty of Law, Economics, and Management, Paris Cité University, Dec. 2023
  20. Exceptionalism in International Commercial Arbitration, Sciences Po & New York University, Paris, Nov. 2023
  21. Laws applicable to CBDCs, talk with Gérardine Goh Escolar, Deputy Secretary General of the Hague Conference, CODIFI (Conference Commercial, Digital and Financial Law Across Borders), live online, Oct. 2023
  22. Economic sanctions and international arbitration, Bergamo University, Sept. 2023
  23. Economic sanctions and their impact on international arbitration, XVI Annual Conference of the Commercial Arbitration Center, Lisbon, July 2023
  24. The acts of bank supervisors before international arbitral tribunals, MOCOMILA (Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association), Banque de France, Paris, June 2023
  25. Economic sanctions in international law (private and public), Verona’s University, June 2023
  26. Cryptocurrencies in international private relations, DOGMA (Paris II Panthéon-Assas) Webinar on Money, Trade, Sovereignty, March 2023
  27. Which comparative law for economic sanctions? Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Asunción (Paraguay), Oct. 2022
  28. Payment in central bank digital currency, University of Clermont Ferrand, Oct. 2022
  29. The response of central banks to the development of cryptocurrencies: the issuance of central bank digital currencies, AEFR (Association Europe – Finances – Régulations), Sept. 2022
  30. Deference in international arbitration: which deference in matters of economic sanctions?, with Pierrick Le Goff, NYU and Sciences Po, June 2022
  31. The location of damage in Private International Law, Introductory report, with Olivera Boskovic, Paris Cité University, May 2022
  32. The control of international public policy for arbitral awards by French courts: a new standard is born?, Maynooth University (Ireland), May 2022
  33. Round table on green finance, Paris 2 Panthéon Assas, May 2022
  34. Cryptocurrencies as a way to circumvent sanctions, Société de législation comparée, May 2022
  35. Regimes for the Harmonization or Unification of Commercial Law: Managing Diversity and Plurality in Law, International Academy of Comparative Law, Pretoria, Oct. 2021
  36. The new currency war, with Francesco Martucci, Université Paris Est-Créteil, Sept. 2021
  37. The privatization of currency, University of Western Brittany, 2021
  38. Due Process in International Arbitration: French Report, NYU School of Law, 2019
  39. Choice of Forum in Banking and Financial Matters: What Should Be Done with Asymmetric Clauses and Model Clauses in ISDA Master Agreements? (Panthéon-Assas University, 2019)
  40. Round table on “Causes for the nullity of awards in commercial arbitration: is it necessary to expand or restrict the standard list in the Model Law?”, Latin American Arbitration Conference (CLA) May 2019, Asunción (Paraguay)
  41. Cryptocurrencies: a challenge for comparative law?, Argentine Association of Comparative Law, Buenos Aires, April 2019
  42. Currency in international law, annual conference of the AEDBF (European Association of Banking and Financial Law), Brussels, 2018
  43. Fraud and offshore: is civil justice powerless? Franco-American perspectives, Association France-Amériques, 2018
  44. Cryptocurrencies as transnational currencies, 10th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers’ Conference, Madrid, 2018
  45. Round table on “The New York Convention at 60: Is it a rock in a stormy sea?”, MIDS conference “Stability and Change in International Dispute Settlement,” Geneva, 2018
  46. Legal regulation of crowdfunding, International Academy of Comparative Law, Fukuoka, Japan, 2018
  47. Round table on “El impacto de las sanciones económicas en el arbitraje internacional,” CLA (Latin American Arbitration Conference), Cusco, Peru, 2018
  48. Rationale and application of the provision of article 4 (1) (h) on Rome I Regulation on the law applicable to contracts on financial instruments concluded within a multilateral system” and Comparison of article 5 Rome II and the 1973 Hague Convention on the law applicable to product liability, Conference “Towards a Norwegian codification of choice of law rules – An assessment of Rome I and Rome II,” Oslo University, May 2018
  49. Protection of Vulnerable Customers, Conference on The Social Functions of Bankers, University of Strasbourg, 2018
  50. Soft Law in International Arbitration and Damages, National University of Singapore, 2018
  51. Legal Tender of Euro Bank Notes in French Law, European Central Bank, 2017
  52. Unidroit Principles and Hague Principles: what political purpose(s)?, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2016
  53. Foreign currency loans, Strasbourg, Summer doctoral school, 2016
  54. The Sapin 2 Bill on State Property Immunities, Strasbourg, Summer Doctoral School, 2016
  55. French Law on Surrogacy, Kansai University, Japan, 2016
  56. Banking secrecy: what are the challenges for fundamental rights and freedoms?, Strasbourg, Summer doctoral school, 2016
  57. Can Financial Instruments Be Considered an Investment?, Edinburgh, Faculty of Law, 2015
  58. The Argentinian Sovereign Debt before Investment Arbitral Tribunals, Turin University, 2015
  59. Precedent in International Law – Introductory Report, Annual Conference of the French Society for International Law, Strasbourg, 2015
  60. Dispute Settlement Mechanisms for Sovereign Debt, 12th Brazilian Congress of International Law, Bahia, 2014