Elise Poillot
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Professor of Civil Law University of Luxembourg
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FORMER POSITIONS
Associate Professor at the University Jean Moulin-Lyon III (France)
Deputy Director of the Edouard Lambert Institute of Comparative Law University Jean Moulin-Lyon III
(France)
Research Assistant (2004-2005) at the University of Turin, Italy (Post doctorate contract)
Research Assistant (2000) at the University of Münster, Germany (Postgraduate contract)
Teaching and Research Assistant (1997-2000; 2000-2002) at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
EDUCATION
2004 Doctorat en Droit Privé (Ph. D., Private Law)
1996 DEA en Droit Privé de l’Economie with honours (Postgraduate program in French Business
Private Law)
1994 Maîtrise en droit with honours (French Master Law Degree)
1993 Licence en Droit with honours, (French Bachelor Law Degree)
LANGUAGES
English (fluent) ; German ; Italian (fluent) ; Spanish.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
European Law; Consumer Law; Contract Law, Comparative Law; Civil Law; Common Law.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Subject matters: Law of Persons; Law of Contracts; English Contract Law; European Consumer Law;
Comparative Legal Traditions; European Private Law.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS
2010: Organisation of the conference “The boundaries of European Private Law” held in Luxembourg (28-
29th Octobre 2010).
2010: As a member of the Working group on European Private Law of the University of Luxembourg.
Supervision and collaboration to the answer to the Green Paper on Policy Options for Progress Towards a
European Contract Law for Consumers and Businesses COM (2010) 348 Final.
2007: As a member of the French branch of the Acquis Group. Collaboration to the answer to the Green
Paper on the Review of the Consumer Acquis COM (2006) 744 Final. Drafting of the answer regarding the
right of withdrawal.
2005: Coordinator at the University Jean Moulin-Lyon 3 (France) of the Research Network ”Improving
Human Potential”: A Uniform Terminology for European Law, European Consortium (Universities of
Münster, Turin, Warsaw, Oxford, Nijmegen and Barcelona) (2005).
2004-2005 : Post-doctorate contract at the University of Turin (Italy) on the topic of European Contractual
Terminology in the frame of the Project Uniform Terminology in European Contract Law.
Expert for France for the EC Consumer Law Compendium ordered by the EU commission and drafted under
the supervision of H. Shulte-Nölke, Ch. Twigg-Flesner, M. Ebers,
2003: Research contract of three months at the University of Münster (Germany) on the topic “The sale of
services” in the frame of the Project Uniform Terminology in European Contract Law.
2001: Research contract of one month at the University of Turin (Italy) on the topic of the influence
European Consumer Law on Italian Law in the frame of the Project Common Principles of European Private
Law.
2000 : Research contract of three months at the University of Münster (Germany) on the topic of the
Influence European Consumer Law on German Law in the frame of the Project Common Principles of
European Private Law.
1998 : Six months’research for the PhD work at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom).
AWARDS, PRIZES AND MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the Acquis communautaire Group, (since 2003)
Member of the Société de législation comparée (since 2005)
Member of the Working group on European Private Law of the University of Luxembourg (since 2010)
Fellow of the European Law Institute (since 2011)
1rst prize of the competition of the young comparative lawyers for a presentation on the Right of Withdrawal
in European and Comparative Consumer Law (2005)
1rst prize awarded for the PhD work “The impact of European Consumer Law on the Standardisation of
Contract Law” by the Centre français de droit comparé (2005)
PUBLICATIONS
Books :
Traité sur les règles communes des contrats de consommation, (Treaty on Common Rules for Consumer
Contracts – French law), in collaboration with N. Sauphanor-Brouillaud and G. Bruneaux, to be published in
2012.
Drafting in English of the French part of the Casebook on Consumer Law, ed. by H.-W. Micklitz and J.
Stuyck, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2010.
Droit européen de la consommation et uniformisation du droit des contrats, (European Consumer Law and
Standardisation of the Law of Contract) préface de P. de Vareilles-Sommières, LGDJ, Bibliothèque de droit
privé, t. 463, Paris 2006.
Articles :
« Influence du droit de l’Union européenne et primauté de la loyauté : une protection incidente du
consommateur ? » (Primacy of Good Faith and Influence of European Union Law : an indirect protection of
consumers ?), written contribution of the conference delivered at the Symposium La loyauté en droit de la
concurrence et de la consommation (Good Faith in Consumer and Competition Law) held in Paris on 29th
March 2011, to be published in Les Petites Affiches. September 2011.
« La notion de droit privé européen », (The concept of European Private Law), partly in English, written
version of the conference delivered at the Symposium on The Boundaries of European Private Law, held in
Luxembourg, 28th and 29th October 2010, to be published by Larcier, Brussels, Fall 2011.
« La directive services est-elle au service du consommateur ? », (Does the Services Directive benefit
Consumer?), written contribution of the conference delivered at the Symposium on La directive Services en
principes et en pratique, (The Services Directive : theoretical and practical Approach) in Lyon, 25th May
2010, to be published by Larcier, Brussels, Fall 2011.
Commentaire en italien des articles 12 et 69 du Traité sur le Fonctionnement de l’Union européenne en
italien (Commentary in Italian of articles 12 and 69 of the Treaty on the Functioning of The European
Union), Edizioni Simone Naples (to be published Fall 2011).
Report on the 2010 Trans Europe Experts (TEE) Forum of Paris, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht,
4/2010, p. 975.
Commentaire de l’arrêt de la Cour d’Appel de Luxembourg (Clauses abusives dans les contrats de crédit à la
consommation) en date du 8 octobre 2009 (Commentary of the decision of the Court Of Appeal of
Luxembourg, October 8th 2009, Unfair Terms in Consumer Credit), in Pasicrise luxembourgeoise 2011,
n°1, p. 20.
« L’exécution du contrat » (Performance of Contract) in L’Acquis communautaire : le contrat électronique,
(Contract Acquis : e-contracts) sous la dir. de J. Rochfeld, Economica 2010, p. 201 et s.
En collaboration avec N. Sauphanor Brouillaud et H. Aubry, Panorama de droit de la consommation in
Recueil Dalloz, 2010, n° du 1er avril, p. 790. (In collaboration with H. Aubry and N. Sauphanor-Brouillaud,
Annual Overview of French Consumer Law) in Recueil Dalloz, 2009, p. 393.
Comparative Reflections on the Transposition of European Directives : Unfair Terms, in Albert Breton,
Anne Des Ormeaux, Katharina Pistor, and Pierre Salmon, (Eds.), Multijuralism: Manifestations, Causes, and
Consequences, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, P 149 et s.
Report on EC Consumer Law Compendium, in European Contract Law Review, 2009-1, p. 65.
En collaboration avec N. Sauphanor Brouillaud, Panorama de droit de la consommation (In collaboration
with N. Sauphanor-Brouillaud, Annual Overview of French Consumer Law) in Recueil Dalloz, 2009, p. 393.
Chronique régulière du dernier semestre 2004 au dernier semestre 2008 dans la rubrique (Column on the
French bibliography on European Private Law 2004-2008) « Bibliografia frances de derecho privado
europeo » pour l’Anuario de Derecho Civil.
« L’influence du droit européen de la consommation sur le droit des contrats », (Influence of European
Consumer Law on the Law of Contracts, written version of the conference delivered at the Symposium on
Contract Law European European Prospects and Internal Reforms) Publication de l’intervention lors du
colloque sur le droit des contrats « Perspectives européennes et réformes internes » de Paris du 4 juin 2008,
in Droit et Patrimoine, n° spécial, oct. 2008, p. 12.
« A propos du statut des enfants nés sans vie : réflexion à partir des arrêts de la 1ère chambre civile du 6
février 2008 », (Stillborn children, commentary of the decisions of the French Cour de cassation of 6th
February 2008), in Gazette d’actualité juridique juillet 2008, Faculté de droit virtuelle de l’Université Jean
Moulin – Lyon 3.
« Regards européens sur la décision de la Cour suprême du Canada Dell Computer Corp. c. Union des
consommateurs et Olivier Dumoulin », (European views on the Canadian Supreme Court’s decision Dell
Computer Corp. c. Union des consommateurs et Olivier Dumoulin) Revue générale de droit de l’Université
d’Ottawa 2007, n° 2, p. 391 et s.
« Le siège de la chose jugée », (Where does Res Judicata stand in a Court’s decision?) in Droit prospectif,
Revue de la recherche juridique, n° 4, 2007, p. 1921 et s.
« Variazioni sulla terminologia giuridica in diritto comunitario e francese : dal « francese comunitario » al
« francese di Francia »: l’esempio del diritto di “résiliation” del compratore di un viaggio nella direttiva
90/314/CEE sui viaggi, vacanze e circuiti “tutto compreso », (European Legal Terminology, from EU
French to “French Language of France”: about the Withdrawl Right in the 90/314/EEC Directive on Package
Holydays) to be published in Il diritto contrattuale europeo nelle direttive communitarie e trasposizioni
giuridiche nazionali, Giappichelli ed., Milan 2006, Collana: Materiali di diritto privato europeo.
Consumer and Contract Law, in Specifics of Contract Law in the Acquis communautaire in ERA FORUM
Special Issue 2006, p. 36.
« Breve presentacion del anteproyecto de reforma frances del derecho de obligaciones », Short présentation
of the Reform Project of French Contract Law, in Anuario de Derecho Civil T LIX, fac. III, Julio Septiembre
2006.
With L Grynbaum, « La nomenclature des remèdes à l’inexécution du contrat en droit communautaire »
(Remedies in European Contrat Law), in L’Acquis communautaire, collection Etudes juridiques, Economica,
Paris 2006, p. 13.
« La vente de services en droit communautaire (directive 1990/314/CEE sur les voyages, vacances et
circuits à forfait) » (The Sale of services in European Law, the 90/314/EEC directive on Package Holiday),
in Gianmaria Ajani/Martin Ebers (eds.), Uniform Terminology for European Contract Law, Nomos
Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2005, p. 359 et s.
« Le droit comparé au service de la compréhension de l’Acquis communautaire, l’exemple du droit de
rétractation dans la directive 97/7/CE sur la vente à distance » (Comparative Law, an helpful tool to
understand the Acquis communautaire? Reflection on the withdrawal right in the 97/7/EC directive on
distance selling), in Revue internationale de droit comparé 2005, n° 4, p. 1017.
Compte rendu des premières rencontres de l’UMR de droit comparé (Report on the Conferences of the first
Meeting of the Comparative Law Group of Paris), Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht n° 1, 2003, p.
180.
Articles Review for the Annuario de Derecho Civil (Spain), 2005-2010.
CONFERENCES
« Le nouveau Code luxembourgeois de la consommation dans son environnement national et européen »
(The Consumer Code of Luxembourg : a domestic and European perspective), Conference delivered at the
University of Luxembourg with L. Gloden, 15th June 2011.
« Vers un droit de la déconsommation : comment concilier en droit protection du consommateur et
protection de l’environnement » (Consuming less? How to make compatible Consumer protection and
Environmental Protection), Inaugural Lecture delivered on 10th February 2011 at the University of
Luxembourg.
« Le particularisme de l’enseignement du droit à Luxembourg » (Specificities of Teaching Law at the
University of Luxembourg) Conference delivered at the University of La Rochelle (France) for the
Symposium « Quelles pédagogies pour l’étudiant juriste ? Expérimentations, modélisation, circulation »
(Educating Law Students, Experiments, Models, Circulations of Models) 20th and 21st January 2011.
« Le droit européen de la consommation protège-t-il le consommateur. Réflexions sur les ambiguïtés de la
législation européenne », (Does European Consumer Law protect Consumers? Reflections on the
Ambiguities of European Legislation), Conference delivered at the French Senate for the annual symposium
of the alumni of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Paris 9th June 2010.
« La directive services au service des consommateurs ? », (Does the Services Directive benefit Consumer?),
conference delivered at the Symposium on La directive Services en principes et en pratique, (The Services
Directive : theoretical and practical Approach) in Lyon, 25th May 2010
« L’actualité des clauses abusives en droit européen », (Actuality of Unfair Terms) Conference delivered at
the University of Luxembourg, 25th May 2010.
« Le droit européen de la consommation vous protège-t-il ? », (Does European Consumer Law protect
you?), Conference organised by the European Parliament Information Office for the “midis de l’Europe”,
Luxembourg 15th March 2010.
Final Report of the Symposium of the “Institut Européen d’Études Notariales”: « Le notaire dans son
environnement numérique » (Notaries in an electronic Context), Luxembourg 26th March 2010.
« Droit européen de la consommation et droit des contrats » (European Consumer Law and European
Contract Law), Conference delivered at the University of Luxembourg, 24th February 2010.
« Diritto europeo del consumo e uniformazione del diritto dei contratti » (European Consumer Law and
Standardisation of the Law of Contract), Conference delivered in Italian at the University of Insubria,
Varese, Italy, 13th November 2009.
« Vues de France : réflexion sur les méthodes d'enseignement françaises appliquées aux étudiants du
système de Common Law », (From a French Perspective : Reflections on French Teaching Methods applied
to Common Law Students), Conference delivered at the Symposium organised by the Maison française
d’Oxford « L’enseignement et la recherche en droit français au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande, état des lieux,
spécificité et perspectives » (Teaching and Research regarding French Law in the United Kingdem and
Ireland : Facts, Specificites, Future) in Oxford (UK) 9th and 10th October 2009.
Short speech in English at the round table organised by the University of Oslo, Norway (dir. Prof. Kåre
Lilleholt) on the Influence of European Consumer Law on the Law of Contract, (April 2007 and May 2008).
Consumer and Contract Law, conference delivered in English at the Symposium of the European Law
Academy (Europäisches Recht Akademie), 17th and 18th November 2005, Towards a European Frame of
Reference.
Comparative Reflections on the Transposition of European Directives : Unfair Terms, conference delivered
in French at the Symposium of Toronto, 27th and 28th October 2006, Multijuralism: Manifestations, Causes,
and Consequences.
« L’influence du droit européen de la consommation sur le droit des contrats », (Influence of European
Consumer Law on the Law of Contracts), Conference delivered at the Symposium on Contract Law
European European Prospects and Internal Reforms organised by the French Society of Notaries, Paris 4th
June 2008
REPORTS
Report (in English) on Technical Surveys under French Law in the field of Immovable Property Sales for the
Norwegian Administration in 2008.
Report on the Res Judicata under Italian Process law for the French Supreme Court in Private Law (Cour de
cassation). The Report is published on the website of the Court together with the Reports of the judges and
the conclusions of the Advocate General regarding the Decision of the Assemblée Plénière 7th July 2006,
www.courdecassation.f
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