My background
Doctor of law, lawyer and mediator
From the University of Bordeaux to rue La Boétie: an academic career devoted to private international family law, then practice as a lawyer at the Paris Bar since 2019, and mediation.
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Education
- 2022
University diploma in arbitration practice
Université Paris-Saclay
- 2021
Cross Border International Family Mediation
UC Hastings, San Francisco (USA)
- 2020
University diploma in mediation
IFOMENE, Institut catholique de Paris — dissertation: International family mediation
- 2019
Diploma of lawyer practising amicable methods
Institut du droit de la famille et du patrimoine (IDFP) / French Association of Collaborative Law Practitioners (AFPDC)
- 2019
French bar qualification (CAPA)
Paris Bar School (EFB) — winner of the Violette Gorny competition for the best family law jurist
- 2017
Auditor at the Hague Academy of International Law
- 2017
Qualified as a university lecturer in private law
- 2016
PhD in private law and criminal sciences
University of Bordeaux — thesis: The couple in private international law, highest honors
- 2012
Master’s degree (II) in international and European law
University of Bordeaux
- 2010
Certificate in English Law
University of Birmingham (England)
- 2009
Degree in law and political science
University of Bordeaux
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Professional experience
- Since 2022
Lawyer at the Paris Bar, own practice (sole proprietorship), Paris 8th
- 2019 – 2022
Associate lawyer, Mulon Associés, Paris
- 2019
Trainee lawyer then legal counsel, Mulon Associés, Paris
- 2018
Trainee at the family chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal
- 2018
Trainee lawyer, CBBC law firm, Paris
- 2012 – 2017
Doctoral researcher and teaching fellow, University of Bordeaux
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Teaching
I have taught since 2012, first at university and then at bar schools.
- Conducting a negotiation and amicable strategy — IXAD, Lille (2021-2023)
- International child abduction — Bordeaux Summer University (2022)
- Negotiation techniques — Paris Bar School (2021-2022)
- International family mediation — Paris Bar School (2021-2022)
- Private international law of successions and matrimonial regimes — Paris Bar School (2021-2022)
- International estate and matrimonial planning — Paris Bar School (2021-2022)
- Private international family law, international week — Paris Bar School (2021-2022)
- Amicable methods available to lawyers — Paris Bar School (2021-2022)
- The participatory procedure — Paris Bar School (2021-2022)
- The agreement to mediate — Paris Bar School (2021-2022)
- Collaborative process and participatory procedure — Paris Bar School (2020-2021)
- Separation of international couples — Paris Bar School (2020-2021)
- Family law and matrimonial regimes — Institut supérieur du droit, Paris (2019-2021)
- The practice of international family law — Master II, University of Bordeaux (2018-2021)
- Private international law, law of obligations, law of persons and family: tutorials — University of Bordeaux (2012-2017)
- European private international family law — Master I, Belarusian center, Minsk (2016)
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Professional associations
- Parental consensus at the Paris courtWorking group since March 2026; first hearing scheduled for 7 October 2026.
- Parental consensus at the Paris Court of AppealWorking group meetings on 6 July and 23 September 2026.
- IDFP international commissionWorking sessions, private international law webinars and practitioner questions.
- Les Avocats de la Paix and JurisMediationMember since March 2023; international network of mediators.
- Co-chair of the international committee of the Institut du droit de la famille et du patrimoine (since 2021)
- Member of the Institut du droit de la famille et du patrimoine and of the French Association of Collaborative Law Practitioners
- Member of the Union Internationale des Jeunes Avocats and of the European Young Bar Association
- Member of JurisMediation and of Les Avocats de la Paix
- Member of the Euro-Mediterranean consortium “Droits et Familles” and coach for the private international family law moot court (2015-2018)
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Lectures
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Publications
Thesis, articles and case notes on international family law and amicable dispute resolution (in French unless stated otherwise). Read the thesis in HAL
Doctoral thesis
Le couple en droit international privé. Contribution à l’adaptation du droit international privé du couple [The Couple in Private International Law: A Contribution to Adapting the Private International Law of Couples], doctoral thesis defended at the University of Bordeaux on December 1, 2016.
Articles
Plaidoyer en faveur d’une résolution amiable des conflits familiaux internationaux [A Plea for the Amicable Resolution of International Family Disputes], Revue Droit de la famille, LexisNexis, July 2021, No. 7/8.
La promotion et l’encadrement des MARD : le rapport de la cour d’appel de Paris [Promoting and Regulating Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Paris Court of Appeal Report], Gazette du Palais 2021, No. 2, p. 50.
Les conséquences du Brexit en matière familiale [The Family Law Consequences of Brexit], Gazette du Palais 2021, No. 1, p. 55.
Les innovations apportées par la refonte du règlement Bruxelles II bis du 25 juin 2019 [The Innovations of the Recast Brussels IIa Regulation of June 25, 2019], Lexbase Hebdo, private law edition, September 2019.
Faut-il permettre l’insertion de clauses relatives à la désunion dans les contrats de mariage ? [Should Marriage Contracts Be Allowed to Include Separation Clauses?], Revue Droit de la famille, December 2019, No. 12, study No. 17.
Same-sex Marriage in France and its International Repercussions, Montesquieu Law Review, October 2015, No. 3, pp. 103–112 (in English).
Contrer les obstacles à la réception réciproque des institutions familiales entre l’Europe et le Maghreb [Overcoming Obstacles to the Mutual Recognition of Family Institutions between Europe and the Maghreb], Revue Droit de la famille, September 2015, No. 49.
Le mariage homosexuel et la coordination des ordres juridiques nationaux par les droits de l’Homme et le droit international privé [Same-Sex Marriage and the Coordination of National Legal Systems through Human Rights and Private International Law], Actes des Universités d’été de Bayonne, Pedone, 2016, pp. 225–241.
Le divorce : cas pratique [Divorce: A Case Study], in Les annales du droit, Introduction au droit et droit civil, Dalloz, 2015, pp. 112–124.
La procréation médicalement assistée face aux droits européens [Medically Assisted Reproduction and European Law], Revue des droits et libertés fondamentaux, March 2013, column No. 9.
Case notes
Conséquences internationales de la modification de la résidence de l’enfant en cours de procédure [International Consequences of a Change in the Child’s Residence during Proceedings], note on French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation), 1st civ. ch., September 30, 2020, No. 19-14.761, Gazette du Palais, January 2021, No. 1, p. 74.
Application de la charia à un héritage en dépit de la volonté du testateur [Application of Sharia to an Inheritance despite the Testator’s Wishes], note on Cass. 1st civ. ch., March 18, 2020, No. 19-50.031, Gazette du Palais, July 7, 2020, No. 25, p. 73.
La transcription de l’acte de naissance de l’enfant né de procréation médicalement assistée est désormais possible [Transcription of the Birth Certificate of a Child Born through Assisted Reproduction Is Now Possible], note on Cass. 1st civ. ch., December 18, 2019, Gazette du Palais, April 7, 2020, No. 14, p. 77.
La détermination de la compétence internationale en matière successorale [Determining International Jurisdiction in Succession Matters], note on Cass. 1st civ. ch., May 29, 2019, No. 18-13.383, Lexbase Hebdo, September 2019.
Le refus d’exequatur d’une décision étrangère pour doute sur la maternité constitue une révision au fond contraire à la convention franco-marocaine [Refusing Recognition of a Foreign Judgment for Doubt over Maternity Amounts to a Review on the Merits Contrary to the Franco-Moroccan Convention], note on Cass. 1st civ. ch., March 20, 2019, No. 18-50.005, Gazette du Palais, July 2019, No. 24, p. 62.
Le nouveau visage de la litispendance européenne : de la course à la juridiction à la course à la décision [The New Face of European Lis Pendens: From a Race to the Court to a Race to the Judgment], note on CJEU, January 16, 2019, Case C-386/17, Gazette du Palais, April 2019, No. 14, p. 58.
La liberté matrimoniale et la continuité du statut conjugal au secours de la validité du mariage entre alliés [Freedom to Marry and Continuity of Marital Status Uphold the Validity of a Marriage between In-Laws], note on ECtHR, September 5, 2019, Theodorou and Tsotsorou v. Greece, Journal d’actualité des droits européens, December 20, 2019.
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